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.
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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).