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View Name: Gad


GAD
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Biblical
PRONOUNCED: GAD (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
Means "fortune" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Gad is the first son of Jacob by Leah's slave-girl Zilpah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites. Another Gad in the Old Testament is a prophet of King David.
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