GIBBETHON
(a hill), a town allotted to the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:44) and afterwards given with its "suburbs" to the Kohathite Levites. ch. (Joshua 21:23)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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GIBEA
(a hill). Sheva "the father of Macbenah" and "father of Gibea" is mentioned with other names, unmistakably those of places and not persons, among the descendants of Judah. (1 Ch...
GIBEAH
a word employed in the Bible to denote a hill. Like most words of this kind it gave its name to several towns and places in Palestine, which would doubtless be generally on or n...
GIBEATH
probably the same as, GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN, THE LAND OF. (Joshua 18:28)
GIBEON
(hill city), one of the four, cities of the Hivites, the inhabitants of which made a league with Joshua, (Joshua 9:3-15) and thus escaped the fate of Jericho and Ai. Comp. ch. (...
GIBEONITES, THE
the people of Gibeon, and perhaps also of the three cities associated with Gibeon, (Joshua 9:17) --Hivites; and who, on the discover of the stratagem by which they had obtained ...
GIBLITES, THE
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GIDDALTI
(I have trained up), one of the sons of Heman, the king’s seer. (1 Chronicles 25:4)
GIDDEL
(very great).Children of Giddel were among the Nethinim who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:47; Nehemiah 7:49)Bene-Giddel were also among the "servants of S...
GIDEON
(he that cuts down), youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, an undistinguished family who lived at Ophrah, a town probably on the west of Jordan, (Judges 6:15) in the territor...
GIDEONI
(a cutting down), a Benjamite, father of Abidan. (Numbers 1:11; 7:60,65; 10:24)
GIDOM
(desolation), a place named only in (Judges 20:45) It would appear to have been situated between Gibeah (Tuliel-el-Ful) and the cliff Rimmon.
GIEREAGLE
an unclean bird mentioned in (Leviticus 11:18) and Deuteronomy 14:17 Identical in reality as in name with the racham, of the Arabs, viz., the Egyptian vulture.
GIFT
The giving and receiving of presents has in all ages been not only a more frequent but also a more formal and significant proceeding in the East than among ourselves. We cannot ...
GIHON
(a stream).The second river of Paradise. (Genesis 2:13) [EDEN]A place near Jerusalem, memorable as the scene of the anointing and proclamation of Solomon as king. (1 Kings 1:33,...
GILALAI
(weighty), one of the priests’ sons at the consecration of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:36) (B.C. 446.)
GILBOA
(a bubbling spring) a mountain range on the eastern side of the plain of Esdraelon, rising over the city of Jezreel. Comp. (1 Samuel 28:4) with 1Sam 29:1 It is mentioned in Scri...
GILEAD
(rocky region).A mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon. (Genesis 3...
GILEADITES, THE
(Numbers 26:29; Judges 10:3; 12:4,5), a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, descended from Gilead.
GILGAL
(a wheel; rolling).The site of the first camp of the Israelites on the west of the Jordan, the place at which they passed the first night after crossing the river, and where the...
GILOH
(exile), a town in the mountainous part of Judah, named in the first group with Debir and Eshtemoh, (Joshua 16:51) it was the native place of the famous Ahithophel. (2 Samuel 15...
GILONITE, THE
native of Giloh. (2 Samuel 15:12; 23:34)
GIMZO
(fertile in sycamores), a town which with its dependent villages was taken possession of by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz. (2 Chronicles 28:18) The name (Jimzu) still rem...
GIN
a trap for birds or beasts; it consisted of a net, (Isaiah 8:14) and a stick to act as a spring. (Amos 3:5)
GINATH
(protection), father of Tibni. (1 Kings 16:21,22)
GINNETHO
(gardner), one of the chief of the priests and Levites who returned to Judea with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:4) He is doubtless the same person as
GINNETHON
(gardener), a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:6) (B.C. 410.)