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.
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