Gad is a Syrian or Canaanite deity of good luck or fortune. In Hebrew, it iswritten GD, but with Massoretic vowel-pointing, it gives us "Gad." Other Scriptural referencesto a similar deity, also written GD, have a vowel-pointing giving us "Gawd" or "God." Gad isidentified with Jupiter, the Sky-deity or the Sun-deity.

The word "God (or god)" is a title, translating the Hebrew Elohim (orelohim), El (or el), and Eloah. However, it is often used as asubstitute for the Tetragrammaton (YHVH).

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, GOD is the common Teutonic wordfor a personal object of religious worship, applied to all the superhuman beings of theheathen mythologies. The word "god" on the conversion of the Teutonic races to Christianitywas adopted as the name of the One Supreme Being. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethicsand Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged agree that the origin isTeutonic paganism.

In Indo-Germanic dictionaries, only one word resembles "god." It isghodh and is pronounced the same. This word means union, also sexual union or mating.According to Luneburger Wörterbuch, the following are the same word: Gott, got, gode,gade, god and guth (gud).