Smith's Bible Dictionary

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GENNESARET, SEA OF

[See GALILEE, SEA OF, SEA OF]

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GENNESARETH

Inaccurately written for [GENNESARET]

84

GENTILES

(nations). All the people who were not Jews were so called by them, being aliens from the worship, rites and privileges of Israel. The word was used contemptuously by them. In t...

85

GENUBATH

the son of Hadad, an Edomite of the royal family, by an Egyptian princess, the sister of Tahpenes, the queen of the Pharaoh who governed Egypt in the latter part of the reign of...

86

GERA

(a grain), one of the "sons," i.e. descendants, of Benjamin. (Genesis 46:21) Gera, who is named, (Judges 3:15) as the ancestor of Ehud, and in (2 Samuel 16:5) as the ancestor of...

87

GERAH

[WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND MEASURES]

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GERAR

(a lodging-place), a very ancient city south of Gaza. It occurs chiefly in Genesis, (Genesis 10:19; 20:1; 26:17) also incidentally in (2 Chronicles 14:13,14) It must have trench...

89

GERASENES

(Luke 8:26) Revised Version; [See GADARENES, GIRGESENES, GERASENES]

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GERGESENES

[See GADARENES, GIRGESENES, GERASENES]

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GERIZIM

(cutters), a limestone mountain, 2855 feet high (800 feet above the valley at its foot), in Ephraim, near Shechem (Sychar), from which the blessings were read to the Israelites ...

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GERIZITES

(1 Samuel 27:8) [GERZITES]

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GERSHOM

(a stranger or exile).The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah. (Exodus 2:22; 18:3) (B.C. 1530.)The form under which the name GERSHON--the eldest son of Levi--is given in severa...

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GERSHON

(exile). The eldest of the three sons of Levi, born before the descent of Jacob’s family into Egypt. (Genesis 46:11; Exodus 6:16) (B.C. before 1706.) But, though the eldest born...

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GERSHONITES, THE

the family descended from Gershon or Gershom, the son of Levi. "THE GERSH0NITE," as applied to individuals, occurs in (1 Chronicles 26:21) The sons of Gershon (the Gershonites) ...

96

GERZITES

(dwellers in the desert), The, a tribe who with the Geshurites and the Amalekites occupied the land between the south of Palestine and Egypt in the time of Saul. (1 Samuel 27:8)...

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GESHAM

(filthy) (sometimes written GESHAN), one of the sons of Judah, in the genealogy of Judah and family of Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:47)

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GESHEM

and Gash’mu (rain), an Arabian, mentioned in (Nehemiah 2:19) and Nehe 6:1,2,6 (B.C. 446.) We may conclude that he was an inhabitant of Arabia Petraea or of the Arabian desert, a...

99

GESHUR

(a bridge), a little principality of Syria, northeast of Bashan. (3:14; 2 Samuel 15:8) It ia highly probable that Geshur was a section of the wild and rugged region now called e...

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GESHURI AND GESHURITES

The inhabitants of Geshur. (3:14; Joshua 12:5; 13:11)An ancient tribe which dwelt in the desert between Arabia and Philistia. (Joshua 13:2; 1 Samuel 27:8)

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GETHER

(fear), the third in order of the sons of Aram. (Genesis 10:23) No satisfactory trace of the people sprung from this stock has been found.

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GETHSEMANE

(an oil-press), a small "farm," (Matthew 26:36; Mark 14:32) situated across the brook Kedron (John 18:1) probably at the foot of Mount Olivet, (Luke 22:39) to the northwest and ...

103

GEUEL

(majesty of God), son of Machi the Gadite spy. (Numbers 13:15) (B.C 1490.)

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GEZER

(a precipice), an ancient city of Canaan, whose king, Hiram or Elam, coming to the assistance of Lachish, was killed with all his people by Joshua. (Joshua 10:33; 12:12) It form...

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GEZRITES THE

The word which the Jewish critics have substituted in the margin of the Bible for the ancient reading, "the Gerizite." (1 Samuel 27:8) [GERIZITES, THE]

106

GIAH

(a waterfall), a place named only in (2 Samuel 2:24) to designate the position of the hill Ammah.

107

GIANTS

men of extraordinary size or height.They are first spoken of in (Genesis 6:4) under the name Nephilim. We are told in (Genesis 6:1-4) that "there were Nephilim in the earth," an...

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GIBBAR

(gigantic), the father of some who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. (Ezra 2:20)