H1430 — Gadish (Heap, stack (of grain or sheaves))

H1430 · Hebrew · Old Testament

גָּדִישׁ

Gadish

Noun, masculine

Heap, stack (of grain or sheaves)

Definition

The noun gadish refers to a heap or stack of harvested grain sheaves — what the KJV calls a 'shock of corn.' It appears in contexts of harvest abundance and also in warnings about fire consuming the crops.

Usage & Theological Significance

The image of the grain heap (gadish) captured the blessing of harvest abundance and the vulnerability of agricultural life. When Samson ties firebrands to the foxes' tails and burns the Philistine grain heaps (Judges 15:5), he strikes at the heart of their food supply. Job uses the image of a mighty man dying 'as the full grain heap' (Job 5:26) — ripened at the proper time — to describe the blessed death of the righteous. The harvest imagery throughout Scripture (Joel 3:13; Revelation 14:15) draws on the gut-level realities of grain heaps, whether for joy or judgment.

Key Bible Verses

Judges 15:5 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.

Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Ruth 3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain.

Exodus 22:6 If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Isaiah 17:5 And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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