(Mount) Gilboa
גִּלְבֹּעַStrong’s H1533gilboa (gil-bo-a)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gilboa is the Hebrew word usually translated “gilboa”, “at gilboa” and “on gilboa”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.”
Meaning
- § Gilboa = "swollen heap"
- Gilboa = "swollen heap"
How it's translated
- gilboa 5
- at gilboa 1
- in gilboa 1
- on gilboa 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- 1 Chronicles 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 31:8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:6And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
- 2 Samuel 1:21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
- 1 Chronicles 10:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּלְבֹּעַ gilboa · Gilboa
§ Gilboa = "swollen heap" a mountain-ridge at the southeastern end of the plain of Jezreel, site of the death of Saul and Jonathan
גִּלְבֹּעַ gilboa · (Mount) Gilboa
Gilboa = "swollen heap" a mountain-ridge at the southeastern end of the plain of Jezreel, site of the death of Saul and Jonathan Also named: gil.ad (גִּלְעָד "(Mount )Gilead" H1568K)
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.