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Gad
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Gad, in the Bible, son of Jacob and Zilpah and eponymous founder of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. Its allotment was half of Gilead 1 Eponym of the Gileadites, grandson of Manasseh.

2 Gadite.

3 Jephthah's father.

4 City near Mizpah, denounced by Hosea .

5 Fertile, mountainous region, NE of the Dead Sea.
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; this was the land best suited to the pastoral life, which Gad, like Reuben, continued after the years in Egypt. The "people of Gad" are mentioned on the Moabite stone.


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