Geder
The word signifies a wall, inclosure, fortified place; as do also the two names following, which are derived from it. Geder itself was an ancient Canaanitish place, in the plain...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Gederah
A city in the plain of Judah, Jos 15:36, probably the same with the preceding Geder, and with Beth-Gader, 1Ch 2:51. It would thence seem to have pertained to the family of Caleb.
Gedor
A city in the mountains of Judah, surrounded by fat pastures, and formerly occupied by the Amalekites, 1Ch 4:39; 12:7; Jos 15:58. It is now called Jedur, and lies about eight mi...
Gehazi
A confidential attendant of Elisha. He appears in the story of the Shunammite woman, 2Ki 4:14-37, and in that of Naaman the Syrian, form whom he fraudulently obtained a portion ...
Gehenna
SeeHINNOM.
Gemariah
1. The son Shaphan, a scribe of the temple in the time of Jehoiakim. In his apartment Baruch read aloud the prophecies of Jeremiah; and he, with others, secured a second and mor...
Genealogy
A record of one’s ancestors, either the line of natural descent from father to son, or the line in which, by the laws, the inheritance descended, or that preserved in the public...
Generation
Besides the common acceptation of this word, as signifying race, descent, lineage, it is used for the history and genealogy of a person, as in Ge 5:1, "the book of the generatio...
Genesis
The first of the sacred books in the Old Testament; so called from the title given to it in the Septuagint, signifying "the book of a generation," or production of all things. M...
Gennesaret
Supposed to be a corruption of Chinnereth, which see. "The land of Gennesaret," Mt 14:34Mr 6:53, was a tract of land some three of four; miles long on the western border of the ...
Gentiles
A name given by the Hebrews to all those that had not received the Law of Moses. Foreigners who embraced Judaism, they called proselytes. Since the promulgation of the gospel, t...
Gentiles, Court Of The
Josephus says there was in the court of the temple a wall or balustrade, breast high, having pillars at regular distances, with inscriptions on them in Greek and Latin, importin...
Gentiles, Isle Of The
Ge 10:5, Asia Minor and the whole of Europe, peopled by the descendants of Japheth.
Gerah
The smallest weight or coin among the Jews, the twentieth part of a shekel, and worth about two and a half cents, Ex 30:13.
Gerar
An ancient town or place of the Philistines in the times of Abraham and Isaac, Ge 10:19 20:1 26:1,6,17. It lay not far from Gaza, in the south of Judah, but its exact site is no...
Gergesenes
Mt 8:28, in the parallel passages in Mark and Luke, Gadarenes. SeeGADARA. Some manuscripts have Gadarenes in Mt 8:28, and others Gerasenes; but Gerasa lay forty miles southeast ...
Gerizim
A mountain in Ephraim, between which and Ebal lay the city of Shechem, Jud 9:7. The world has beheld few scenes more awful and suggestive than when, having conquered Canaan, all...
Gershom
A stranger there, one of the two sons of Moses and Zipporah, in the land of Midian, Ex 2:22; 18:3. Moses appears to have given them no rank or emoluments but those of simple Lev...
Gershon
The eldest son of Levi, and head of one of the three branches of the Levitical tribe, Ge 46:11; Ex 6:16. The Gershonites encamped west of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and c...
Geshem Or Gashmu
An Arabian, who opposed the work of the Lord in the time of Nehemiah, by ridicule and plots, Ne 2:19; 6:1-9; about 445 B. C.
Geshur, Geshuri, Geshurites
The name of a district and people in Syria. Geshur lay upon the eastern side of the Jordan between Bashan, Maachah, and Mount Hermon, and within the limits of the Hebrew territo...
Gethsemane
Oil-press, a garden or grove in the valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives, over against Jerusalem, to which our Savior sometimes retired, and in which he endured his agony, ...
Gezer
A royal city of the Canaanites, Jos 10:33 12:12; between Bethhoron and the Mediterranean, Jos 16:3; afterwards on the western border of Ephraim, and assigned to the Levites, Jos...
Ghost
The spirit, or principle of life in man. To "give up the ghost," is to die, to yield the soul to God who gave it, Ge 25:8Lu 23:46. SeeSPIRIT.
Giants
Earth-born. It is supposed by many that the first men were of a size and strength superior to those of mankind at present, since a long life is usually associated with a well-de...
Giants, Valley Of The
SeeREPHAIM.
Gibbethon
A city of the Philistines, within the bounds of the tribe of Dan, and assigned to the Levites, Jos 19:44; 21:23. The Philistines, however, were not excluded; and in the time of ...