2. 1 Ch 25^- ° eldest ' son ' of Jeduthun, leader of the second cour.se of temple musicians. 3. Ezr 10'* (1 Es 9" Joadanus), a priest 'of the sons of Jeshua,' who ' had married a strange woman.' i. Jer 38' son of Pashhur (Jer 20'-"), a prince in the reign of Zedukiah. 8. Zeph 1' grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah. N. J. D. WHITE.
GEDDUR (A Teddoip, B KeSdoip), 1 Es S".— la Ezr 2^' Neh 7*° Gahak. inj was perliaps read •mi.
GEDER (113). — An unidentified Canaanitish town, whose king was amongst those conquered by Joshua, Jos 12" (only). While LXX A has VaSdp, B has 'Acrel. It is very probably identical with Beth-gader of 1 Ch 2". In 1 Ch 27^ Baal- hanan, who had charge of David's olives and syco- mores, is called the Gederite ("T^n), wliich may be a gentilic name derived from Geder, although some prefer to derive it from Gederah (wh. see).
GEDERAH. — AV of 1 Ch 40" reads, 'Those that dwelt among plants (RVm plantations) and hedges,' but RV gives ' the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah,' and this is probably the correct tr" of .Tiiji D'^Di '3y^'. In that case the Gederah re- ferred to would probably be the city of that name located by Jos 15^ in the Shephelah, the modem Jedireh (,b'lKP vol. iii. sh. xx.) and the Gedour of Eusebius (Onomast. p. 254, Lagarde, 2nd ed.). The gentUic name Gederathite (•OT^") occurs in 1 Ch 12^. J. A. Selbie.
GEDEROTH (rt-na, in 2 Ch 28" ':n).— A town of Judah in the Shephelah, Jos 15", 2 Ch 28'8, noticed \vith Beth-dagon, Makkedah, and Naamah. It appears to be the modern Katrah near Yebna, where a Je\vish colony is now established. Possibly it is also the Kidron of 1 Mac 15=«- •" \&. See SWP
vol. iii. sh. xvi.
C. K. Conder.
GEDEROTHAIM (o^oilJ) occurs in Jos 15" as one of the fourteen cities of Judah that lay in the Shephelah. There are, however, fourteen cities without it, and it is probable that the name has arisen by dittography from the preceding Gederah (Noldeke, Krit. d. AT, 101). The names of the cities in the LXX show several divergences from the MT ; in T."* Adithaim is omitted, and after VaS-qpi we read xal al iTravKm ai>T^s, which is eridently intended to be the tr" of n:nnij ('sheep-folds'). Both the Oxf. Heb. Lex. and ' Siegfried ■ Stade are surely in error in stating that the name is omitted in the LXX. The subterfuge of the AVm ' Gederah or Gederothaim ' is, of course, not per- missible. J. A. Selbie.
GEDOR (*3, -113).— 1. A town of Judah, named along with Halhul and Beth-zur, Jos 15™ ; cf. 1 Ch 4«- >» 12" (in this last injri, Baer and Kittel •man). It is generaUy identilied with the modem JedUr (Fvobinson, BRP- ii. 13) north of Beit Sur. 2. The district from which the Simeonites are said
to have expelled the Hamite settlers, 1 Ch A""^. The LXX, however, reads Tipapa (Gerar), and Gerar 'suits admirably as to direction' (Kittel in SHOT). This reading is adojited also by Ewald (Gcsch. Isr. i. 344), Bertheau {C/iron. 51), Hitzia (on Mic I"), Graf {Der Stamm Simeon, 25), Oxf. Heb. Lex., Siegfried-Stade, etc.
OEDOR (nhJ, -113 'wall').— 1. A Benjamite, an ancestor of kmg Saul, 1 Ch 8" 9^. 2. 3. The eponym of two Judahite families, 1 Ch 4*- '». bee Genealogy.
GE-HARASHIM {cxnn n-j), 'valley of craftsmen,' 1 Ch 4''', Neh U*'. In the latter passage it occurs ■\vith Lod and Ono. The name mav survive at ihe ruin Hirsha, E. of Lydda. See S'WP vol. ii. sh. xiv.
GEHAZI ('in"!, except in 2 K 5=» 8*-», where it is Vp?, ' valley of vision ' ; LXX Tifffi, Vulg. Giezi) is four times called tlie servant (lyj, lit. ' boy ') of Elisha, a term which indicates a lower kind of service than Elisha's 'ministry' to Elijah. He may, however, be the jjerson called in 2 K 4'" Elisha's minister (niv'r). the word which is applied to Elisha himself in 1 K 19^'. Gehazi is one of those Bible characters— Achan, Judas, Anania*^ Demas, etc. — wliose crimes and apostasy point the moral that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. What is known of him is told in three narratives.
1. In the story of the lady of Shunem (2 K 4»-") he appears as a man of shrewd practical sense, but incapable of understanding the impulses of deep feeling. His moral quality is scarcely defined. Elisha having failed to persuade his benefactress to ask any favour, turns in perplexity to consult his servant (4'^). G. has penetrated the good lady's thoughts, and teUs the prophet of her secret longing for a son. Elisha perceives that his servant's insiglit has surpassed his own, and, recalling the Slmnam- mite, promises that the desire of her heart will be granted. In the sequel to the story, when the lady, bereft of this child of promise, comes in htsta to the retreat at Carmel and casts herself ai. the prophet's feet in a passion of grief, G.'s common- place mind is shocked at this liberty taken by a woman. He would rudely thrust her away ; but the prophet, pitying her unknown sorrow, reproves his servant for adding to the bitterness of her soul. When she has told the cause of her grief, G. ia directed to hasten to Shunem, saluting no man by the way (cf. Lk 10^), ana lay the prophet's staff on the face of the child.