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The Hebrew Roots
Gam (Gimel)
By Jeff A. Benner

Parent Root
גד   /   GD

Verb: Slice       Noun: ?

Pictographic Meaning: ?
Root Meaning: ?
Edenics: gut - used to make cordage in the same sense as the tendon
AHLB#: 1050

Child Root: / גדד / GDD   Verb: Band   Noun: Company
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 1050 B

Child Root: / אגד / AGD   Verb: ?   Noun: Bunch
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 1050 C

Child Root: / גדה / GDH   Verb: ?   Noun: Riverbank
Root Meaning: The water rushing by the bank undercuts a furrow inside the bank.
AHLB#: 1050 H

Child Root: / גוד / GWD   Verb: Invade   Noun: Band
Root Meaning: A group of men or things bound together.
AHLB#: 1050 J

Child Root: / גיד / GYD   Verb: ?   Noun: Sinew
Root Meaning: The animal's tendon is used for making bowstrings and cords. The tendon is removed by making a slit in the flesh for its removal. The sinews are used for making cordage and bowstrings.
AHLB#: 1050 M

Adopted Root: / גדל / GDL   Verb: Magnify   Noun: Rope / Magnificent
Root Meaning: A cord is made by twisting fibers together, the larger and more numerous the fibers, the stronger the cord will be. Anything that is large or great in size or stature.
AHLB#: 2054

Adopted Root: / גדע / GDAh   Verb: Cut   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: A cutting down or into pieces.
AHLB#: 2055

Adopted Root: / גדף / GDP   Verb: Taunt   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2056




Parent Root
גו   /   GW

Verb: ?       Noun: Back

Pictographic Meaning: ?
Root Meaning: The back as the middle part of the body, used in lifting.
Edenics: ?
AHLB#: 1052




Parent Root
גל   /   GL

Verb: Roll       Noun: Round

Pictographic Meaning: ?
Root Meaning: Something that is round or a second time around of a time or event. A dancing in a circle.
Edenics: skull - an added s and an exchange of the k and g, Greek golgotha
AHLB#: 1058

Child Root: / גל / GL   Verb: Round   Noun: Wheel
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 1058 A

Child Root: / גלל / GLL   Verb: Roll   Noun: Round
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 1058 B

Child Root: / אגל / AGL   Verb: ?   Noun: Drop
Root Meaning: A drop of dew as round.
AHLB#: 1058 C

Child Root: / גאל / GAL   Verb: ?   Noun: ? / Redeem
Root Meaning: The buying back, a bringing back around, of someone or something.
AHLB#: 1058 D

Child Root: / גלה / GLH   Verb: Uncover   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 1058 H

Child Root: / גול / GWL   Verb: ?   Noun: Infant
Root Meaning: A rejoicing at the birth of a child.
AHLB#: 1058 J

Child Root: / גיל / GYL   Verb: ?   Noun: Circle
Root Meaning: A continual rolling or circling.
AHLB#: 1058 M

Adopted Root: / גבל / GBL   Verb: Bound   Noun: Boundary
Root Meaning: The edge or ends of a region. Borders were often defined by a coastline or a landmark.
AHLB#: 2049

Adopted Root: / גלב / GLB   Verb: Shave   Noun: Barber
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2063

Adopted Root: / גלד / GLD   Verb: ?   Noun: Skin
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2064

Adopted Root: / גלח / GLHh   Verb: Shave   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2065

Adopted Root: / גלם / GLM   Verb: Wrap   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2066

Adopted Root: / עגל / AhGL   Verb: Round   Noun: Cart
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2524




Parent Root
גר   /   GR

Verb: Sojourn       Noun: Traveler / Fear

Pictographic Meaning: The pictograph is a picture of the foot and means to walk. The is a picture of a man. Combined these mean "a walking man".
Root Meaning: One traveling through a foreign land is a stranger to the people and culture. Fear is associated with strangers and seen as an enemy. This root also has the idea of laying out flat to sleep through the idea of spending the night.
Edenics: growl - a sound from the throat; grown
AHLB#: 1066

Child Root: / גרר / GRR   Verb: Chew   Noun: Throat
Root Meaning: The throat is the place where fear is felt.
AHLB#: 1066 B

Child Root: / אגר / AGR   Verb: Gather   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: A gathering together of small items for traveling such as grain, berries or coins.
AHLB#: 1066 C

Child Root: / גהר / GHR   Verb: Prostrate   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: When a stranger meets another he lays prostrate in homage to the other.
AHLB#: 1066 G

Child Root: / גרה / GRH   Verb: Fight   Noun: Throat
Root Meaning: The place of chewing and growling out of anger. Also scratching of the throat from fear or affliction.
AHLB#: 1066 H

Child Root: / גור / GWR   Verb: Sojourn   Noun: Dwelling / Fear
Root Meaning: A temporary place of dwelling for the traveler.
AHLB#: 1066 J

Child Root: / יגר / YGR   Verb: ?   Noun: ? / Fear
Root Meaning: Fear of a stranger or enemy.
AHLB#: 1066 L

Child Root: / גיר / GYR   Verb: ?   Noun: Limestone
Root Meaning: Used to make a plaster for making a flat level floor.
AHLB#: 1066 M

Adopted Root: / גרב / GRB   Verb: Scratch   Noun: Itch
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2080

Adopted Root: / גרד / GRD   Verb: Scrape   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2081

Adopted Root: / גרז / GRZ   Verb: Cut   Noun: Axe
Root Meaning: ?
AHLB#: 2082

Adopted Root: / גרל / GRL   Verb: Rough   Noun: Stone
Root Meaning: An abrasive stone for scratching or sanding.
AHLB#: 2083

Adopted Root: / גרן / GRN   Verb: ?   Noun: Floor
Root Meaning: The smooth level floor for grains, either a barn or threshing floor.
AHLB#: 2085

Adopted Root: / גרס / GRS   Verb: Crush   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: The crushing of grain in a mill to make meal.
AHLB#: 2086

Adopted Root: / גרע / GRAh   Verb: Diminish   Noun: Ledge
Root Meaning: Something made small through removal.
AHLB#: 2087

Adopted Root: / גרף / GRP   Verb: Sweep away   Noun: ?
Root Meaning: A carrying or taking away by flood or striking.
AHLB#: 2088

Adopted Root: / גרש / GRSh   Verb: Cast out   Noun: Pasture
Root Meaning: The land surrounding a city was inhabited by the lower class people or outcasts. This land is also covered with pastures for raising the flocks and herds of the city.
AHLB#: 2089

Adopted Root: g / gרף / GhRP   Verb: Drop   Noun: Cloud
Root Meaning: The dropping of rain from clouds.
AHLB#: 2909



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