Strong's #1413: gadad (pronounced gaw-dad')

a primitive root (compare 1464); to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into):--assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves together, self in troops), cut selves.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâdad

1) to penetrate, cut, attack, invade

1a) (Qal) to penetrate, cut into

1b) (Hithpoel)

1b1) to cut oneself

1b2) to gather in troops or crowds

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H1464]

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Genesis 30:11: "And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad."
Deuteronomy 14:1: "your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between"
1 Kings 18:28: "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till"
Psalms 94:21: " They gather themselves together against of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood."
Jeremiah 5:7: "gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots houses."
Jeremiah 16:6: "neither shall men lament for them: nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald"
Jeremiah 41:5: "even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings"
Jeremiah 47:5: "with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?"
Micah 5:1: "Now gather thyself in troops, of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite"