Gad (Bible)
For Gad, the prophet of King David, see
Gad (Bible prophet) Gad was, according to the
Book of Genesis, the first son of
Jacob and
Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the
Israelite Tribe of
Gad; however
Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an
eponymous metaphor providing an
aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the
Torah argues that the name of Gad means luck/fortunate, in
Hebrew, deriving from a
root meaning cut/divide, in the sense of divided out;
classical rabbinical literature argues that the name was a prophetic reference to the
manna;
biblical scholars suspect that refers to a deity originally worshipped by the tribe, namely
Gad, the semitic deity of fortune, who, according to the
Book of Isaiah, was still worshipped by certain Hebrews during the 6th century BC.
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