International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Gar

gar: the King James Version forGAS(which see).

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Garden

gar'-d'-n (gan, gannah, ginnah; kepos): The Arabic jannah (diminutive, jannainah), like the Hebrew gannah, literally, "a covered or hidden place," denotes in the mind of the dwe...

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Garden-House

(beth ha-gan):A place mentioned in describing the flight of Ahaziah, king of Judah, from Jehu (2Ki 9:27). Probably we ought not to translate the Hebrew, but take it as a proper ...

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Garden, The King's

Mention is made of "the king's garden" in2Ki 25:4;Jer 39:4;52:7(fundamentally the same passage), in connection with the flight of Zedekiah from Jerusalem; and again inNe 3:15. T...

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Gardener

gar'-d'-n-er (kepouros):"Gardener" occurs once in the English Versions of the Bible (Joh 20:15), the translation of kepos and ouros, "warden" or "keeper." It is likely that the ...

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Gareb

ga'-reb (garebh):One of David's "mighty men of the armies" (2Sa 23:38;1Ch 11:40), an "Ithrite," i.e. a member of one of the families of Kiriath-jearim (1Ch 2:53). Some, however,...

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Gareb, The Hill Of

ga'-reb, (garebh):A hill in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, which was one of the landmarks to which the prophet Jeremiah (31:39) foresaw that the city should extend. The site is ...

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Garizim

gar'-i-zim.SeeGERIZIM.

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Garland

gar'-land (stemma, "wreath"):Mentioned only inAc 14:13, where it is said that the priest of Jupiter brought oxen and garlands unto the gates with which to offer sacrifices unto ...

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Garlic

gar'-lik (shum, used only in plural shumim; compare Arabic thum):One of the delights of Egypt for which the Israelites in the Wilderness longed (Nu 11:5); we know from other sou...

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Garment

gar'-ment.SeeDRESS.

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Garmite

gar'-mit (garmi):A gentilic name applied to Keilah in1Ch 4:19.The reason for this is not known.

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Garner

gar'-ner (mazu; apotheke):"Garners," derived from zawah, "to gather," occurs inPs 144:13; 'otsar is similarly translated inJoe 1:17. In the New Testament apotheke is twice trans...

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Garnish

gar'-nish (tsippah, shiphrah; kosmeo):The word is used twice in the Old Testament. In2Ch 3:6, tsippah means "to overlay," or "to plate." Thus, he "garnished" the house or "overl...

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Garrison

gar'-i-s'-n.SeeWAR.

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Gas

gas (Gas):Named among the "sons of the servants of Solomon" (/APC 1Esdras 5:34); not mentioned in the lists of Ezra and Nehemiah.

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Gashmu

gash'-mu, gash'-moo (gashmu):A form of the nameGESHEM(which see), found inNe 6:6(compareNe 6:1), "And Gashmu saith it." According to BDB the same termination -u is found in Naba...

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Gatam

ga'-tam (ga`tam):An Edomite chief, grandson of Esau (Ge 36:11,16;1Ch 1:36).

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Gate

gat (Hebrew normally (over 300 times) sha`ar; occasionally deleth, properly, "gateway" (but compareDe 3:5); elsewhere the gateway is pethach (compare especiallyGe 19:6); Aramaic...

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Gate, Corner, Fountain, Horse, Sur

SeeJERUSALEM.

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Gate, East

The expressions are found in Ezekiel: "Even the gate that looketh toward the east" (43:1); "The gate whose prospect is toward the east" (43:4); but the idea of a gate on the eas...

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Gate, The Beautiful

bu'-ti-fool (he horaia pule tou hierou):This gate of Herod's temple is mentioned in the narrative of the healing of the lame man by Peter and John inAc 3:2,10. Little dispute ex...

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Gate, Valley

InNe 2:13the King James Version, "gate of the valley."SeeJERUSALEM.

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Gath

gath (gath; Septuagint Geth, "winepress"):One of the five chief cities of the Philistines (Jos 13:3;1Sa 6:17). It was a walled town (2Ch 26:6) and was not taken by Joshua, and, ...

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Gath-Hepher

gath-he'-fer (gath ha-chepher, "winepress of the pit"):A town on the boundary of Zebulun (Jos 19:13; the King James Version in error, "Gittah- hapher"), the birthplace of the pr...

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Gath-Rimmon

(1) A city in the territory of Da named with Bene-berak and Me-jarkon, in the plain not far from Joppa (Jos 19:45), assigned to the Kohathite Levites (Jos 21:24), reckoned to Ep...

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Gather

gath'-er ('acaph, qabhats; sullego, sunago):"Gather," transitive "to bring together," "collect," etc., and intransitive "to come together," "assemble," etc., occurs frequently a...