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 *

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

Places

* Gad, West Virginia, 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 ...

, Dorset, England * Gad River, 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 of ...

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 metap ...

, 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 Heb ...

, a tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel *

Gad (prophet) Gad (, ) was a seer or prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of Jewish historian Josephus. He was one of the personal prophets of King David of Israel and, according to the Talmudic tradition, some of his writings are believed to ...

, 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 Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities. Worry often interferes with daily functio ...

* Glutamate decarboxylase, an enzyme in mammals * Glycoazodyes *

Gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent MRI contrast agents are contrast agents used to improve the visibility of internal body structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The most commonly used compounds for contrast enhancement are gadolinium-based. Such MRI contrast agents short ...

Great dodecahedron In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel penta ...

, a regular polyhedron

Other uses

Gaddang language The Gaddang language (also Cagayan) is spoken by up to 30,000 speakers (the Gaddang people) in the Philippines, particularly along the Magat and upper Cagayan rivers in the Region II provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Isabela and by overseas migr ...

, 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 ...