# H1406 גָּג

גָּג (gâg), Strong’s H1406: a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar KJV: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).. Occurs 30 times.

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*gâg* — a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar

KJV: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).

Derived from [גָּאָה gâʼâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1342) (to mount up)

Occurs 30 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גָּג n.m. roof, top
- 1 roof
- 2 top of altar of incense, in tabern.

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 30:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=3) — You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding…
- [Exodus 37:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/37?v=26) — He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
- [Deuteronomy 22:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/22?v=8) — When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house…
- [Joshua 2:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=6) — But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the…
- [Joshua 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=8) — Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
- [Judges 9:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=51) — But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in…
- [Judges 16:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=27) — Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof…
- [1 Samuel 9:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=25) — When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
- [1 Samuel 9:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=26) — They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you…
- [2 Samuel 11:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=2) — At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing…