גִּבְעָהGibʻâh
proper name [of a location]: hill
Pronunciation: ghib-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1390
Meanings
1. a city of Judah (Joshua 15:57)
2. city of Benjamin (Judges 19:14; Judges 19:16; 1 Samuel 10:26)
3. a city of Ephraim (Joshua 24:33)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 45 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten towns with their surrounding villages.
- Joshua 24:33 Eleazar son of Aaron also died. He was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, in the town of Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas.
- Judges 19:12 “No,” his master said, “we can’t stay in this foreign town where there are no Israelites. Instead, we will go on to Gibeah.
- Judges 19:13 Come on, let’s try to get as far as Gibeah or Ramah, and we’ll spend the night in one of those towns.”
- Judges 19:14 So they went on. The sun was setting as they came to Gibeah, a town in the land of Benjamin,
- Judges 19:15 so they stopped there to spend the night. They rested in the town square, but no one took them in for the night.
See every passage
- Joshua 15:57, 24:33
- Judges 19:12, 19:13, 19:14, 19:15, 19:16, 20:4, 20:5, 20:9, 20:13, 20:14, 20:15, 20:19, 20:20, 20:21, 20:25, 20:29, 20:30, 20:31, 20:34, 20:36, 20:37, 20:43
- 1 Samuel 10:5, 10:10, 10:26, 11:4, 13:2, 13:15, 14:2, 14:16, 15:34, 22:6, 23:19, 26:1
- 2 Samuel 21:6, 23:29
- 1 Chronicles 11:31
- 2 Chronicles 13:2
- Isaiah 10:29
- Hosea 5:8, 9:9, 10:9
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).