H1448 - גְּדֵרָה (gᵉdêrâh)

H1448 גְּדֵרָה (gᵉdêrâh) ghed-ay-raw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

wall

Strong's Definition

enclosure (especially for flocks)

Derivation: feminine of H1447 (גָּדֵר);

KJV Usage: (sheep-) cote (fold) hedge, wall.

TWOT Reference: 318b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) wall, hedge

2) sheepfold (construct with 'sheep')

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G34 G1292 G1886 G5418

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) wall, hedge 2) sheepfold (construct with 'sheep')

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גְּדֵרָה gedêrâh BDB Definition: 1) wall, hedge 2) sheepfold (construct with sheep) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1447 Same Word by TWOT Number: 318b Total KJV Occurrences: 9

Bible Occurrences (9)

32:16 32:24 32:36

24:3

89:40

49:3

42:12

3:17

2:6

Numbers 32:16

Then [the Gadites and Reubenites] approached [Moses] and said, We want to build sheepfolds... here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.

Numbers 32:24

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised....

Numbers 32:36

Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.

1 Samuel 24:3

Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds... along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

Ezekiel 42:12

And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that [were] facing south, [there] [was] a door in front of the walkway... that was parallel to the wall extending... eastward -.

Nahum 3:17

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts... that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows... where.

Zephaniah 2:6

So the seacoast... will become [a land of] pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.