Bible Names

Gad: meaning of the name

Gad means “a band; a troop.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gad in Hebrew and Greek

גָּד H1410

Gâd (gawd) — Gad, a son of Jacob, including his tribe and its territory; also a prophet

from H1464 (גּוּד);

Γάδ G1045

Gád — Gad, a tribe of Israelites

of Hebrew origin (H01410);

People named Gad in the Bible

Gad in Scripture

“Gad” appears in 69 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 30:11

    And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

  • Genesis 35:26

    And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

  • Genesis 46:16

    And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

  • Genesis 49:19

    Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

  • Exodus 1:4

    Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

  • Numbers 1:14

    Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

  • Numbers 1:24

    Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  • Numbers 1:25

    Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.