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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Gog

 

The Bible

Bible Usage:

  • Gog used 11 times.

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Gog

1. A Reubenite (1 Chronicles 5:4), the father of Shimei.

2. The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezekiel 38, 39, as coming from the "north country" and assailing the people of Israel to their own destruction. This prophecy has been regarded as fulfilled in the conflicts of the Maccabees with Antiochus, the invasion and overthrow of the Chaldeans, and the temporary successes and destined overthrow of the Turks. But "all these interpretations are unsatisfactory and inadequate. The vision respecting Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse (Revelation 20:8) is in substance a reannouncement of this prophecy of Ezekiel. But while Ezekiel contemplates the great conflict in a more general light as what was certainly to be connected with the times of the Messiah, and should come then to its last decisive issues, John, on the other hand, writing from the commencement of the Messiah's times, describes there the last struggles and victories of the cause of Christ. In both cases alike the vision describes the final workings of the world's evil and its results in connection with the kingdom of God, only the starting-point is placed further in advance in the one case than in the other."

It has been supposed to be the name of a district in the wild north-east steppes of Central Asia, north of the Hindu-Kush, now a part of Turkestan, a region about 2,000 miles north-east of Nineveh.


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Gog

roof; covering


Naves Topical Index
Gog

1. A Reubenite
1 Chronicles 5:4

2. A Scythian prince, prophecy against
1 Chronicles 26:38; Revelation 20:8


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Gog

(mountain).

  1. A Reubenite, (1 Chronicles 5:4) son of Shemaiah.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Gog

GOG, noun Haste; ardent desire to go.