גִּלְבֹּעַGilbôaʻ

Meanings

Same root

• גַּלgal · H1530something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
• בָּעָהbâʻâh · H1158to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

• 1 Samuel 28:4 The Philistines set up their camp at Shunem, and Saul gathered all the army of Israel and camped at Gilboa.
• 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines attacked Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them. Many were slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa.
• 1 Samuel 31:8 The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa.
• 2 Samuel 1:6 The man answered, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear with the enemy chariots and charioteers closing in on him.
• 2 Samuel 1:21 O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fruitful fields producing offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty heroes was defiled; the shield of Saul will no longer be anointed with oil.
• 2 Samuel 21:12 he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. (When the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, the people of Jabesh-gilead stole their bodies from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them.)