sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative

Gad = "troop"

1. seventh son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and full brother of Asher.

2. the tribe descended from Gad

3. a prophet during the time of David; appears to have joined David when in the hold; reappears in connection with the punishment for taking a census; also assisted in the arrangements for the musical service of the "house of God"

Gilead = "rocky region"

1. a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called 'Mount Gilead' or the 'land of Gilead' or just 'Gilead'. Divided into north and south Gilead

2. a city (with prefix 'Jabesh')

3. the people of the region

   proper masculine noun

4. son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

5. father of Jephthah

6. a Gadite

common, common land, open land, suburb

Mahanaim = "two camps"

1. a place east of the Jordan, named from Jacob's encounter with angels

2. a Levitical city in Gad

staff, branch, tribe

1. staff, rod, shaft

2. branch (of vine)

3. tribe

   1. company led by chief with staff (originally)

refuge, asylum

excitement, anguish

1. of terror

city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

1. city, town

Ramoth = "heights"

1. an Israelite who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

   proper locative noun

2. Ramoth-gilead - a place in Gilead

   1. site dubious

to murder, slay, kill

1. (Qal) to murder, slay

   1. premeditated

   2. accidental

   3. as avenger

   4. slayer (intentional) (participle)

2. (Niphal) to be slain

3. (Piel)

   1. to murder, assassinate

   2. murderer, assassin (participle)(subst)

4. (Pual) to be killed