גֶּזֶרGezer
proper name [of a location]: Levitical city on border of Ephraim (Joshua 10:33; Joshua 12:12; Joshua 21:21; 1 Kings 9:16; 1 Chronicles 6:52)
Pronunciation: gheh'-zer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1507
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 10:33 During the attack on Lachish, King Horam of Gezer arrived with his army to help defend the town. But Joshua’s men killed him and his army, leaving no survivors.
- Joshua 12:12 The king of Eglon The king of Gezer
- Joshua 16:3 Then it descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer and over to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Joshua 16:10 They did not drive the Canaanites out of Gezer, however, so the people of Gezer live as slaves among the people of Ephraim to this day.
- Joshua 21:21 Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Gezer,
- Judges 1:29 The tribe of Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, so the Canaanites continued to live there among them.
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).