Bible word study

Gam (Strong’s H1571): Meaning in the Bible

Gam (גַּם) is the Hebrew word numbered H1571 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and. In the King James Bible it is translated again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and.

• Original wordגַּם
• Transliterationgam
• Pronunciationgam
• Part of speechadverb (adv)
• Strong’s numberH1571
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Gam appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Gam (H1571) stands behind 34 English renderings in 32 verses across 13 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (9), Ecclesiastes (5), Jeremiah (4).

How the King James Bible renders Gam, by count

• also5 of 34 (15 percent)
• as3 of 34 (9 percent)
• even2 of 34 (6 percent)
• again1 of 34 (3 percent)
• alike1 of 34 (3 percent)
• and1 of 34 (3 percent)

Three places to read Gam

• Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
• Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Gam in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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