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(a) Reference in the New Testament is made to gladiatorial shows and fights with wild beasts (1 Corinthians 15:32). These were common among the Romans, and sometimes on a large scale.
(b) Allusion is frequently made to the Grecian gymnastic contests (Galatians 2:2; 5:7; Phil. 2:16; 3:14; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 12:1, 4, 12). These were very numerous. The Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games were esteemed as of great national importance, and the victors at any of these games of wrestling, racing, etc., were esteemed as the noblest and the happiest of mortals.
•GAMMADIM (Ezekiel 27:11) brave warriors; R.V. marg., “valorous men;” others interpret this word as meaning “short-swordsmen,” or “daring ones”, the name of a class of men who were defenders of the towers of Tyre.
•GAMUL weaned the leader of one of the priestly courses (1 Chronicles 24:17).
•GAP a rent or opening in a wall (Ezekiel 13:5; comp. Amos 4:3). The false prophets did not stand in the gap (Ezekiel 22: 30), i.e., they did nothing to stop the outbreak of wickedness.
•GARDENS mentioned in Scripture, of Eden (Genesis 2:8, 9); Ahab’s garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2); the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18); the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 19:41); of Gethsemane (John 18:1).
The “king’s garden” mentioned 2 Kings 25:4, Nehemiah 3:15, was near the Pool of Siloam.
Gardens were surrounded by hedges of thorns (Isaiah 5:5) or by walls of stone (Proverbs 24:31). “Watch-towers” or “lodges” were also built in