Gag גָּג

Gag (Hebrew גָּג, Strong's H1406) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “roof”. It occurs 30 times in 27 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Gag, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 30:3
  And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
• Exodus 37:26
  And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 22:8
  When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Joshua

• Joshua 2:6
  But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
• Joshua 2:8
  And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

Judges

• Judges 9:51
  But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
• Judges 16:27
  Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 9:25
  And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
• 1 Samuel 9:26
  And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 11:2
  And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
• 2 Samuel 16:22
  So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
• 2 Samuel 18:24
  And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 19:26
  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
• 2 Kings 23:12
  And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 8:16
  So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

Psalms

• Psalm 102:7
  I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
• Psalm 129:6
  Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Proverbs

• Proverbs 21:9
  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 25:24
  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 15:3
  In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
• Isaiah 22:1
  The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
• Isaiah 37:27
  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 19:13
  And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
• Jeremiah 32:29
  And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
• Jeremiah 48:38
  There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 40:13
  He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 1:5
  And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).