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Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.
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Verse 11. Happily, fortunately.—Gad, or Bonaventure. Bible.—“Good-fortune,” was acknowledge by the pagans for a divinity; (Isaiah 65:11) perhaps for the Sun, or Oromagdes, the Gad of Aram. He was opposed to the wicked Arimenes in the Chaldee 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. Bible.—Her naming my be simply; Behold I am now a mother of a troop, or little army, Gad; and to which (Calmet. 49:19.) Jacob evidently alludes. Calmet.
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