גג

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
ג־ג־ג (g-g-g)

Compare Ugaritic 𐎂𐎂 (gg, “roof”).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaɡ/

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Noun

גַּג • (gag) m (plural indefinite גַּגּוֹת, singular construct גַּג־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form גָּג) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. roof
   • Tanach, Joshua 2:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְהִיא הֶעֱלָתַם הַגָּגָה וַתִּטְמְנֵם בְּפִשְׁתֵּי הָעֵץ הָעֲרֻכוֹת לָהּ עַל־הַגָּג׃

     v'hí he'elátam hagága vatitm'ném b'fishtéi ha'éts ha'arukhót láh 'al-hagág.
     wəhī heʿĕlā́ṯam haggā́ḡā wattiṭmənēm bəp̄ištē hāʿēṣ hāʿărūḵōṯ lāh ʿal-haggāḡ.

     But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.

2. circumflex accent
3. (informal) maximum

References

• “גג” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H1406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• גג on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he