# גָּג (gag) Israeli respelling: gag. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H1406. 27 Old Testament occurrences. a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar King James renderings: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gag-h1406 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 30:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/3) — And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make un… - [Exodus 37:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/37/26) — And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown… - [Deuteronomy 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/8) — When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall… - [Joshua 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/6) — But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. - [Joshua 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/8) — And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; - [Judges 9:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/51) — But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and ga… - [Judges 16:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/27) — Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand… - [1 Samuel 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/9/25) — And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house. - [1 Samuel 9:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/9/26) — And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I… - [2 Samuel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/2) — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof h… - [2 Samuel 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/22) — So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. - [2 Samuel 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/24) — And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked,… - [2 Kings 19:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/26) — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green h… - [2 Kings 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/12) — And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made… - [Nehemiah 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/16) — So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in t… - [Psalms 102:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/7) — I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. - [Psalms 129:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/129/6) — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: - [Proverbs 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/9) — It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. - [Proverbs 25:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/24) — It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. - [Isaiah 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/15/3) — In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weepin… - [Isaiah 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/1) — The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? - [Isaiah 37:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/27) — Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green h… - [Jeremiah 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/13) — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon… - [Jeremiah 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/29) — And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they h… - [Jeremiah 48:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/38) — There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel where… - [Ezekiel 40:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/13) — He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against… - [Zephaniah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/5) — And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;