page_title: Gad (son of Jacob)
hierarchical_section_title: Gad (son of Jacob)
caption_attribution_description: English: 1640-1645 painting of the biblical patriarch by Francisco de Zurbarán
context_page_description: Gad was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first son of Jacob and Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the Book of Genesis implies that the name of Gad means luck/fortunate, in Hebrew.
context_section_description: Gad (Hebrew: גָּד‎, Modern: Gad, Tiberian: Gāḏ, "luck") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first son of Jacob and Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the Book of Genesis implies that the name of Gad means luck/fortunate, in Hebrew.
caption: Painting by Francisco de Zurbarán (from Jacob and his twelve sons, c. 1640–45)
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