Genesis 30:11
She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dixit : Feliciter, et idcirco vocavit nomen ejus Gad.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Λεία Ἐν τύχῃ· καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Γάδ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לֵאָ֖ה בגד וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת שְׁמ֖וֹ גָּֽד
Haydock's commentary
Happily, fortunately.
Gad, or Bonaventure. (Haydock)
"Good-fortune," was acknowledge by the pagans for a divinity; (Isaias lxv. 11.) perhaps for the Sun, or Oromagdes, the Gad of Aram. He was opposed to the wicked Arimenes in the Chaldean theology, by Zoroaster, (Calmet) the inventor of the Two Principles. Whether Lia intended to attribute this child to the influence of the planet Jupiter, the Sun, or some other tool, we cannot determine. (Haydock)
Her naming may be simply; Behold I am now a mother of a troop, or little army, Gad; and to which (Chap. xlix. 19.) Jacob evidently alludes. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.