Gibeah
גִּבְעָהStrong’s H1390givah (giv-ah)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Givah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gibeah”, “gibeah towards” and “gibeah of”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:”
Meaning
- § Gibeah = "hill"
- Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill"
How it's translated
- gibeah 18
- gibeah towards 7
- in gibeah 6
- gibeah of 5
- at gibeah of 4
- to gibeah 2
- from gibeah of 2
- at gibeah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 22
- 1 Samuel 12
- Hosea 3
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 24:33And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
- Judges 19:12And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
- Judges 19:13And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
- Judges 19:14And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
- Judges 19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
- Judges 19:16And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
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Hebrew dictionary
גִּבְעָה givah · Gibeah
§ Gibeah = "hill" a city in the mountain district of Judah
גֶּ֫בַע geva · Gibeah
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' Another spelling of giv.ah (גִּבְעָה "Gibeah" H1390H)
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.