גֹּבGôb

גֹּב: proper name [of a location]: see below גבב

Pronunciation: gobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1359

Meanings

גֹּב: proper name [of a location]: field of battle with Philistines, site of Gob (si vera lectio) unknown (2 Samuel 21:18; 2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles 20:4; Joshua 10:33; 1 Chronicles 20:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 21:18 After this, there was another battle against the Philistines at Gob. As they fought, Sibbecai from Hushah killed Saph, another descendant of the giants.
  • 2 Samuel 21:19 During another battle at Gob, Elhanan son of Jair from Bethlehem killed the brother of Goliath of Gath. The handle of his spear was as thick as a weaver’s beam!

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).