Hill
גִּבְעָהStrong’s H1389givah (giv-ah)
Appears in 68 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Givah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hills”, “hill” and “hill of”. It appears in 68 verses of the Old Testament.
“The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.”
Meaning
- Gibeath - a place or worship
- Hillhill (lower than a mountain) · as a place of illicit worship · poetic for mountain · used in place names
How it's translated
- the hills 10
- hill 10
- hills 7
- hill of 5
- and hills 4
- and the hills 4
- and to the hills 4
- hills of 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 13
- Jeremiah 9
- Ezekiel 8
- Psalms 5
- 1 Samuel 4
- 2 Samuel 4
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 17:9And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
- Exodus 17:10So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
- Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
- Deuteronomy 33:15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
- Joshua 5:3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
All 68 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
גִּבְעָה givah · Gibeath-(elohim)
Gibeath - a place or worship This name means hill 1a) hill
גִּבְעָה givah · hill
1) hill 1a) hill (lower than a mountain) 1b) as a place of illicit worship 1c) poetic for mountain 1d) used in place names
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HILL, noun
[Latin collis.]
- A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence.
- A cluster of plants, and the earth raised about them; as a hill of maiz or potatoes.
All definitions and other forms of “hill”
HILL, verb transitive
To raise earth about plants; to raise a little mass of earth. Farmers in New England hill their maiz in July.
- To cover. [Latin celo.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.