TBESH · H1406
גָּג · gag · roof
1) roof, top, housetop 1a) roof (of house) 1b) top (of altar of incense)
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gag H1406
גָּג (gag) means “roof” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
גָּג Hebrew · H1406 30 tagged occurrences in 27 verses
Pronunciation guide: gawg Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
probably by reduplication from H1342 (גָּאָה); a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
KJV glosses: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
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How translators render H1406
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the roof | 8 |
| on the rooftops | 3 |
| the rooftops | 3 |
| of the roof | 2 |
| the top | 2 |
| to the roof | 2 |
| a housetop | 1 |
| around your roof | 1 |
| from the roof | 1 |
| on the roof | 1 |
| rooftops | 1 |
| the roof of his house | 1 |
| their rooftops | 1 |
| there | 1 |
| to the rooftops | 1 |
| whose rooftops | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to the roof | 3 |
| upon the roof | 3 |
| of the housetop | 2 |
| on the housetops | 2 |
| the top | 2 |
| upon the top of the house | 2 |
| upon whose roofs | 2 |
| and from the roof | 1 |
| for thy roof | 1 |
| from the roof | 1 |
| generally upon all the housetops | 1 |
| on the top | 1 |
| on the tops | 1 |
| the housetops | 1 |
| to the housetops | 1 |
| to the top | 1 |
| to the top of the house | 1 |
| unto them upon the roof | 1 |
| upon the house top | 1 |
| upon the housetops | 1 |
| upon the roof of his house | 1 |
Verses containing H1406
Page 1 of 1. 27 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Exodus 30:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
Read word by word - Exodus 37:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 22:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Read word by word - Joshua 2:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
Read word by word - Joshua 2:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
Read word by word - Judges 9:51
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
Read word by word - Judges 16:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 9:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 9:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul got ready, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 11:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
Read word by word - Psalms 102:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.8
- Psalms 129:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
Read word by word - Proverbs 21:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read word by word - Proverbs 25:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Read word by word - Isaiah 15:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
Read word by word - Isaiah 22:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
Read word by word - Isaiah 37:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 19:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 48:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 40:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.
Read word by word - Zephaniah 1:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
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