גִּלְעָדִיGilʻâdîy
a Giladite or descendant of Gilad
Pronunciation: ghil-aw-dee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1569
Meanings
1. of גִּלְעָד 6.a (Numbers 26:29)
2. of 5 (Judges 11:1; Judges 11:40; Judges 12:7)
3. of ׳ ג proper name [of a location], compare also below גִּלְעָד 5 (Judges 10:3; 2 Samuel 17:27; 2 Samuel 19:32)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- 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.
- Judges 10:3 After Tola died, Jair from Gilead judged Israel for twenty-two years.
- Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute.
- Judges 11:40 for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah’s daughter.
- Judges 12:7 Jephthah judged Israel for six years. When he died, he was buried in one of the towns of Gilead.
- 2 Samuel 17:27 When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was warmly greeted by Shobi son of Nahash, who came from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and by Makir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and by Barzillai of Gilead from Rogelim.
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).