Strong's #1406: gag (pronounced gawg)
probably by reduplication from 1342; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar:--roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gâg
1) roof, top, housetop
1a) roof (of house)
1b) top (of altar of incense)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: probably by reduplication from H1342
Usage:
This word is used 30 times:
Exodus 30:3: "it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make"
Exodus 37:26: "it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made"
Deuteronomy 22:8: "house, a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house,"
Joshua 2:6: "But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid of flax, which she had laid in order upon"
Joshua 2:6: "of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof."
Joshua 2:8: "unto them upon the roof;"
Judges 9:51: "it to them, and got them up to the top of the tower."
Judges 16:27: "of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women,"
1 Samuel 9:25: "Samuel communed Saul upon the top of the house."
1 Samuel 9:26: "called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away."
2 Samuel 11:2: "his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house:"
2 Samuel 11:2: "upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw"
2 Samuel 16:22: "Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's"
2 Samuel 18:24: "and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up"
2 Kings 19:26: "and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up."
2 Kings 23:12: "And the altars that were on the top of Ahaz, which the kings"
Nehemiah 8:16: "every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God,"
Psalms 102:7: "as a sparrow alone the house top."
Psalms 129:6: "Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth it groweth up:"
Proverbs 21:9: "to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide"
Proverbs 25:24: "to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide"
Isaiah 15:3: "they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping"
Isaiah 22:1: "that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?"
Isaiah 37:27: "and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up."
Jeremiah 19:13: "the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven,"
Jeremiah 32:29: "it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings"
Jeremiah 48:38: "generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken"
Ezekiel 40:13: "He measured then the gate from the roof from the roof to the roof of another: the breadth"
Ezekiel 40:13: "the gate from the roof to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty"
Zephaniah 1:5: "the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear"
