גג

Compare Ugaritic 𐎂𐎂 (gg, “roof”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaɡ/

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גַּג • (gag) m (plural indefinite גַּגּוֹת, singular construct גַּג־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form גָּג) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. roof

   לכל בית יש גג.

   le kol báit yesh gag.

   Every house has a roof.

   • Tanach, Joshua 2:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְהִיא הֶעֱלָתַם הַגָּגָה וַתִּטְמְנֵם בְּפִשְׁתֵּי הָעֵץ הָעֲרֻכוֹת לָהּ עַל־הַגָּג׃

     v'hí he'elátam hagága vatitm'ném b'fishtéi ha'éts ha'arukhót láh 'al-hagág.
     wəhī heʿĕlā́ṯam haggā́ḡā wattiṭmənēm bəp̄ištē hāʿēṣ hāʿărūḵōṯ lāh ʿal-haggāḡ.

     But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.

2. circumflex
3. (informal) maximum

• “גג” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H1406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• גג on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he