BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1387
ge.va — 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'
19 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1382
giv.li — Gebalite
Group of ge.val (גְּבַל "Gebal" H1380) § Giblites = "a boundary" inhabitants of Gebal
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1381
ge.val — Gebal
Gebal = "a boundary" a mountainous area south of the Dead Sea Another spelling of ge.val (גְּבַל "Gebal" H1380)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1380
ge.val — Gebal
§ Gebal = "mountain" a maritime town of Phoenicia near Tyre (modern 'Jebeil') known to the Greeks as 'Byblus'
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →The hill, (2 Sam. 5:25 [1 Chr. 14:16, “Gibeon”]; 2 Kings 23:8; Neh. 11:31), a Levitical city of Benjamin (1 Kings 15:22; 1 Sam. 13:16; 14:5, wrongly “Gibeah” in the A.V.), on the north border of Judah near Gibeah (Isa. 10:29; Josh. 18:24, 28). “From Geba to Beersheba” expressed the whole extent of the kingdom of Judah, just as “from Dan to Beersheba” described the whole length of Palestine (2 Kings 23:8). It has been identified with Gaba (Josh. 18:24; Ezra 2:26; Neh. 7:30), now Jeb’a, about 5 1/2 miles north of Jerusalem.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
