HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1533
גִּלְבֹּעַ
gil.bo.a — Gilboa
§ Gilboa = "swollen heap" a mountain-ridge at the southeastern end of the plain of Jezreel, site of the death of Saul and Jonathan
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
Gilboa
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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.
Historical dictionary entry
Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chr. 10:1, 8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidings of this defeat were conveyed to David, he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the “Song of the Bow” (2 Sam. 1:19-27).
Scripture references
1 Samuel 28:41 Samuel 31:1-82 Samuel 1:6-212 Samuel 21:121 Chronicles 10:11 Chronicles 10:82 Samuel 1:19-271 Samuel 29:11 Samuel 31:112 Samuel 1:6
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.