גּוּך 1) (sec. r. of (sec. r. of אָגַד I) to bind; denom. גִּיד.—[Polel גּוֹדֵד, fr. which גְּדוּד.] —2) (denom. of גדוד) to form a faction; (b. h. to attack in small bands). Yeb. 13ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XIV, 1, v. גָּדַד I) if lo tithgod’du were meant only in the one sense of ‘ye shall form no factions’, it would have read לֹא תָגוּדוּ.
Hithpol. - הִתְגּוֹדֵד to form bands, factions. Ib. 14ᵃ כי אמרינן לא תתגודדו the law against factions applies only to &c.—Sifré Deut. 96; [Pesik. Zutr. R’eh (p. 43) מלשון גדוד].