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GAD
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: גָד (Hebrew)
Pronounced: GAD (English) [key]
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Means "fortune" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Gad was 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 was a prophet of King David. |
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