  16/08/gad.html > the name means fortune, and as such is linked to the divinity of fortune, worshipped by the babylonians, and taken on by the yehudim in exile; he is elsewhere called ba'al and bel, the latter as a courtesy-term for marduk, with the meaning "lord" or "master", and as the planet jupiter, regarded in the east as the bringer of good fortune. how do we know this? > genesis 30:11 and 49:19 make him a son of ya'akov (jacob), whose patrimony was the mountains of gil'ad (gilead) between east menasheh and re'u-ven, on the east side of the river yarden (jordan) > cf deuteronomy 3:12 and 16; joshua 13:24; numbers 32:34; ezekiel 48:27 > his name is also linked to the goat through gedi (), as in ein gedi ( ), the spring of the mountain-goat on the west coast of the yam ha melach (dead sea); also with nachal ha-gad ( ), the valley of the goats in 2 samuel 24:5 > gad also means a "coriander seed", though it is not obvious how this and the goat are connected > 1 samuel 22:5 et al refer to the prophet gad who succeeded shemu-el (samuel) as the chief prophet in the time of king david. it is no coincidence that much of david's story centres upon mo-av (his ancestral tribe) and the region of ein gedi and adul-am, all of which have gadite associations as well as being his own tribal lands, david being from the tribe of yehudah > genesis 30:11 announces his birth to le'ah's maidservant zilpah, and le'ah's accompanying remark that "a troop cometh", which is either a jest at his size or an oracular pronouncement. bagad () is of course an absurdity. ba gad ( ) would indeed mean "a troop cometh" but while there is enormous evidence of the ellipsis of other letters throughout the tanach, almost invariably in nouns, the dropping of an aleph () from a verbal root is not evidenced anywhere else at all
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