גִּלְעָדGilʻâd
proper name [of a location]: Gilead, of mountain-range or hill-country, land & city, east of Jordan
Pronunciation: ghil-awd' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1568
Meanings
1. territory south of Jabbok
2. Northern Gilead
b. id. (Numbers 32:40; Joshua 17:1; Joshua 13:11)
c. balm (Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 22:6)
d. id., and let him depart from Mt. Gilead (Judges 21:8; Judges 21:9; Judges 21:10)
3. more generally, of all Gilead
4. name of a city (Hosea 6:8; Judges 10:17; Genesis 31:54)
5. of Israelites living east of Jordan (as a whole) (Judges 20:1; Amos 1:3; Amos 1:13)
6. treated as proper name, masculine
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 134 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:21 So Jacob took all his possessions with him and crossed the Euphrates River, heading for the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:23 So he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob seven days later in the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob as he was camped in the hill country of Gilead, and he set up his camp not far from Jacob’s.
- Genesis 37:25 Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders taking a load of gum, balm, and aromatic resin from Gilead down to Egypt.
- Numbers 26:29 These were the clans descended from Manasseh: The Makirite clan, named after their ancestor Makir. The Gileadite clan, named after their ancestor Gilead, Makir’s son.
- Numbers 26:30 These were the subclans descended from the Gileadites: The Iezerites, named after their ancestor Iezer. The Helekites, named after their ancestor Helek.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:21, 31:23, 31:25, 37:25
- Numbers 26:29, 26:30, 27:1, 32:1, 32:26, 32:29, 32:39, 32:40, 36:1
- Deuteronomy 2:36, 3:10, 3:12, 3:13, 3:15, 3:16, 4:43, 34:1
- Joshua 12:2, 12:5, 13:11, 13:25, 13:31, 17:1, 17:3, 17:5, 17:6, 20:8, 21:38, 22:9, 22:13, 22:15, 22:32
- Judges 5:17, 7:3, 10:4, 10:8, 10:17, 10:18, 11:1, 11:2, 11:5, 11:7, 11:8, 11:9, 11:10, 11:11, 11:29, 12:4, 12:5, 12:7, 20:1, 21:8, 21:9, 21:10, 21:12, 21:14
- 1 Samuel 11:1, 11:9, 13:7, 31:11
- 2 Samuel 2:4, 2:5, 2:9, 17:26, 21:12, 24:6
- 1 Kings 4:13, 4:19, 17:1, 22:3, 22:4, 22:6, 22:12, 22:15, 22:20, 22:29
- 2 Kings 8:28, 9:1, 9:4, 9:14, 10:33, 15:29
- 1 Chronicles 2:21, 2:22, 2:23, 5:9, 5:10, 5:14, 5:16, 6:80, 7:14, 7:17, 10:11, 26:31, 27:21
- 2 Chronicles 18:2, 18:3, 18:5, 18:11, 18:14, 18:19, 18:28, 22:5
- Psalms 60:7, 108:8
- Song of Solomon 4:1, 6:5
- Jeremiah 8:22, 22:6, 46:11, 50:19
- Ezekiel 47:18
- Hosea 6:8, 12:11
- Amos 1:3, 1:13
- Obadiah 1:19
- Micah 7:14
- Zechariah 10:10
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).