- Original: גּדה - Transliteration: Gadah - Phonetic: gaw-daw' - Definition: 1. a river bank - Origin: from an unused root (meaning to cut off) - TWOT entry: 314a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine - Strong's: From an unused root (meaning to cut off); a border of a river (as cut into by the stream): - bank. Total KJV Occurrences: 3 • banks, 3 Joshua 3:15; Joshua 4:18; Isaiah 8:7