. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ed by the Jews in Babylon,though it is impossible positively to identify it.(Meni.) That Gad was the deity Fortune, underwhatever outward form it was worshipped, is sup-ported by the etymology, and by the common assentof commentators. Gesenius is probably right inhis conjecture that Gad was the planet Jupiter, re-garded by the astrologers of the East as the star ofgreater good fortune. Movers is in favor of theplanet Venus. Vitringa considers it the sun. Il-lustrations of the ancient custom of placing a ban-queting table in honor of idols will be fou
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ed by the Jews in Babylon,though it is impossible positively to identify it.(Meni.) That Gad was the deity Fortune, underwhatever outward form it was worshipped, is sup-ported by the etymology, and by the common assentof commentators. Gesenius is probably right inhis conjecture that Gad was the planet Jupiter, re-garded by the astrologers of the East as the star ofgreater good fortune. Movers is in favor of theplanet Venus. Vitringa considers it the sun. Il-lustrations of the ancient custom of placing a ban-queting table in honor of idols will be found in thetable spread for the sun among the Ethiopians ( 17, 18), and in the feast made by the Babyloniansfor their god Bel (B. & D.; compare also Hdt. i. 181,&c). A trace of the worship of Gad remains inthe proper name Baal-Gad. Gada-ra (Gr. fr. Heb. = Geder? Wr.), a strongcity situated near the river Hieromax, E. of the Seaof Galilee, over against Scythopolis and Tiberias,and sixteen Roman miles distant from each of those. Um Seia = Gadara.—(From Smiths Smaller Dictionary.) places. Josephus calls it the capital of Perea. Alarge district was attached to it. Gadara itself isnot mentioned in the Bible, but it evidently givesname to the country of the Gadarenes (Mk. v. 1; Lk. viii. 26, 37). Of the site of Gadara, thusso clearly defined, there cannot be a doubt. Ona partially isolated hill, at the N. W. extremity ofthe mountains of Gilead, about sixteen miles from GAD GAL 317 Tiberias, lie the remarkable ruins of Um /lew, em-bracing two theatres, traces of the ancient wall, acity gate, a straight main street with its pavementnearly perfect, but its columns on each side all pros-trate, &c. The whole space occupied by the ruinsis about two miles in circumference. The first his-torical notice of Gadara is its capture, along withPella and other cities, by Antiochus the Great, b. Destroyed during the Jewish civil wars, itwas rebuilt by Pompey (b. c. 63), and made theca
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