Gad or GAD may refer to:

Government and politics

General Administration Department The General Administration Department ( my, အထွေထွေအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန, abbreviated GAD) is a civil service body that staffs all regional and state-level governments in Myanmar and provides adm ...

, of Burma's Ministry of Home Affairs * Government Actuary's Department, of the Government of the United Kingdom *

Grand Alliance for Democracy The Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD) was a political multi-party electoral alliance during the 1987 Philippine legislative election. The coalition opposed the policies of incumbent president Corazon Aquino and her Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN; People's ...

, a Philippine political coalition * People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department

People

Gad (name) In the Bible, Gad was the son of Jacob and the founder of the tribe of Gad. Gad is a surname, masculine given name and nickname which may refer to: Given name *Gad al-Haq (1917-1996), Egyptian Grand Imam of Al-Azhar from 1982 to 1996 * Gad Avigad ...

, a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname

Places

Gad, West Virginia Gad is an extinct town in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The community was located on McKee's Creek, but was purchased by the US Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of Summersville Lake Summersville Lake is a reservoir l ...

, flooded in the construction of Summersville Lake, United States * Gad, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States *

Gad Cliff Gad Cliff is a south-facing cliff face, immediately to the east of Worbarrow Tout and Pondfield Cove, on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. Behind it is Gold Down, part of the Lulworth Ranges. Location Gad Cliff is l ...

, Dorset, England *

Gad River This is a list of rivers of India, starting in the west and moving along the Indian coast southward, then northward. Tributary rivers are listed hierarchically in upstream order: the lower in the list, the more upstream. The overall discharge of r ...

, Maharashtra, India * Gad, a village in

Ghilad Ghilad ( hu, Gilád; german: Gilad or ''Kilatt'') is a commune in Timiș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Gad ( hu, Gád; sr, Гад, Gad) and Ghilad. These were part of the commune of Ciacova until 2004, when they were split off ...

Commune, Timiș County, Romania

Religion

Gad (son of Jacob) Gad () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah (Jacob's seventh son) and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor pro ...

, the founder of the tribe of Gad and seventh son of Jacob **

Tribe of Gad According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes.Tribe still originated from the original Hebre ...

, a tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel * Gad (prophet), King David's seer or prophet *

Gad (deity) Gad was the name of the pan- Semitic god of fortune, usually depicted as a male but sometimes as a female. and is attested in ancient records of Aram and Arabia. Gad is also mentioned in the bible as a deity in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 65:11 ...

, a pan-Semitic deity worshipped during the Babylonian captivity

Science, medicine, and mathematics

* Generalized anxiety disorder * Glutamate decarboxylase, an enzyme in mammals *

Glycoazodyes Glycoazodyes (or GADs) are a family of "naturalised" synthetic dyes, so called because they are the conjugation of common commercial azo dyes with a sugar through a "linker". This principle is summarised in the scheme below. Generations, Structu ...

* Gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent * Great dodecahedron, a regular polyhedron

Other uses

* Gaddang language, spoken in the Philippines *

Gender and development Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their ...

Northeast Alabama Regional Airport Northeast Alabama Regional Airport is five miles southwest of Gadsden, in Etowah County, Alabama. It is owned by Gadsden Airport Authority and it used to be Gadsden Municipal Airport. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2 ...

, in Etowah County, Alabama, United States * General Anthropology Division, of the