Geba
גֶּ֫בַעStrong’s H1387geva (ge-va)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geva is the Hebrew word usually translated “geba”, “from geba” and “at geba”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.”
Meaning
- § Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill"
How it's translated
- geba 9
- from geba 4
- and geba 3
- to geba 1
- at geba 1
- in geba 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- Nehemiah 3
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 2 Samuel 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 18:24And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
- Joshua 21:17And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
- Judges 20:10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
- Judges 20:33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 13:3And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
- 1 Samuel 13:16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
Hebrew dictionary
גֶּ֫בַע geva · Geba
§ Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill" a city in Benjamin, modern 'Jeba', which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern 'Mukhmas'
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.