Gazet (Latinized Gazccus), Guillaujie, a French ecclesiastical historian and theologian, was born at Ar- ras in 1554, and died in the same cit}^ Aug. 25, IGll. He was for a time professor of belles-lettres at Lou- vain, quitting that position about 1580. He was also canon of the collegiate Church of St. Peter of Aire, and subsequently aire of the parish of St.lNIarie Madeleine of Arras. Gazet was an ardent student, especially of liagiography, but is by some i-egarded as credulous and inexact in giving the results of his investigations, though the Flemish historians and litterateurs, who have treated of his epoch, bestow high praise u])on him. His most noted work, the Ecclesiastical His- tory of the Low Countries, ])ublished after his death under the care of his nephew, G. Jilontcarre, contains much of the material found in his other writings bear- ing on the subject, only recast to suit it. Among his works are, Ilistoire de la vie, mart, passion et miracles des Saints desquels V Eylise caihoUque fait fete et me- moii-e, etc. (t. i. Arras, 1584, 12mo ; t. ii, Rouen, 1G05, less carefully printed than the i ; a 2d edit. liouen, 1G19, 4to) : — Maffdtdis, iraf/wdia Sacra (Douay, 1589, 8vo) ; — La Somme des Pevhes et le remkde d'iceux, etc. (ibid. 1592, 8vo) : — Ilymnorum Libri septem in CJiristi Jesu etc. fjloriam (ib. 1592, sm. 4to ; the poems of Robert Ohrize, with epistolary dedication and laudatory verses) : — IJ'Ordre et Suite des Eresques et Archeresques de Cam- braj/, etc. (il)id. 1597, 12mo) : — Thesaur. Precnm et Li- taniar. Script. Sacra; etc. (ibid. 1602, 18mo) : — Jdiota de Vita et JMoribus Religiosorum, etc. (ibid. 1G06, 18nio) : — Tableaux Sacrcz de la Gaule Belt/, etc. (ibid. IGIO, 8vo, of which the Bibliolh. Sacrie forms the second jart): ~— Brieve hist, de la sacree Manne, et de la sainte Chnn- delle, etc. (ibid. IGl-:?, IGmo; new editions 1G25, 1G82, 1710, 1738, Arras, 12mo): — and the following posthu- mous works : Les Vies des Saints, avec des exhortations Jlorales (Riieinis, 1G13, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Ilistoire ecclesi- astique des Pai/s-Bas, etc. (Arras and Valenciennes, 1G14, 4to) : — Le Consolateur des Ames Scrujmkvses, etc.
(Arras, 1G17, 18mo) : — Les Regies et Constitutions des Ordres reformes, etc. (ibid. 1G23, 18mo). Gazet wrote also Le Sucre Banquet : — Exercises spirituels, with Lita- nies pour toute In semuinc, and some ascetic tracts, pour la consolation et instruction du peuple Chrestien. — Iloefer, Noiiv. Biog. Genii-ale, xix, 781-784. (J. W. M.)
Ga'zez (Heb. Guz:z', TTS, shearer; Sept. TtZovi:'), the name of two men, supposed by some to have been identical.
1. A "son" of Caleb (son of Hezron, son of Judah) bv his concubine Ephah (1 Chron. ii, 4G). B.C. cir. 185G.
2. A grandson of the same Caleb, through another of his sons Haran (1 Chron. ii, 4G). B.C. post 185G.
Ga'zite (Heb. in the plur. with the art. ka-Azza- thim^ , Vi'^T^VTl ; Sept. oi Frt^dioi, Vulgate Philisthiim A.V. "the Gazites'"), the designation (Judg. xvi, 2) of the inhabitants of Gaza (q. v.) ; elsewhere rendered " Gazathites" (q. v.^.
Gaz'zam (Heb. Gazzam' , tV?., devouring [comp. LocrsT], or [Furst] swaggerer; Sept. TfZkn and Fjj- ^(^t/i.Vulg. Gaztnn and Gezem"), the progenitor of one of the funilies of Nethinim that returned from the cap- tivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii, 48 ; Neh. vii, 51). B.C. ante 536.
Geb. See Locust.
Ge'ba, the name of at least two i)laces in Central Palestine.
1. (Heb. Ge'ba, "35, often with the art. i. e. the hilli in pause '■'■ Ga'ba,''' "33, Josh, xviii, 24; Ezra ii, 2G; Neh. vii, 30; yet this form is also Anglicized "Gc- ba" in 2 Sam. v, 25; 2 Kings xxiii, 8; Xeh. xi, 31), a city of Benjamin with "villages" (Josh, xviii, 24; on its settlement, see 1 Chron. viii, 6), hence more fulh" " Geba of Benjamin" (1 Kings xv, 22 ; 1 Sam. xiii, 16 [Josephus Gibcon, Tajiawi', Ant.y\,G, n. ; for which, perhaps, compare 1 Chron. viii, 29 ; ix, 35), situated on the northern border of the kingdom of Judah (2 Kings xxiii, 8 ; Zech. xiv, 10), near to Gibeah, ajiparently towards the east or north-east (Isa. x, 29 ; Josh, xviii, 24, £8). It is often asserted that Gtba and Gibeah were names of the same place ; the A.V. in at least 1 Sam. xiii, 15, 16, confounds them ; the Sept. and Vulg. ren- der both indifferently 1 y Tujiaci and Gabaa; and in two passages (Judg. xx, 10, 33) the same error has crept into the original. Schwarz's identification of these places (Phys. Pescrip. nf Palest, p. 132) is full of errors in locality. The two names are indeed only mascu- line and feminine forms of the same word, signifying "hill ;" but that they were two different places is evi- dent from Josh, xviii, 24, compare 28 ; 1 Sam. xiii, 2, compare 3; Isa. x, 29. In 2 Sam. xx, 8, the name "Geba" stands erroneously for Gieeox (compare 1 Chron. xiv, 16). Gel a, with its "sulurbs," was as- signed to the priests (Josh, xxi, 17; 1 Chron. vi, CO). Tlie Philistines were smitten from Geba unto Gazer by David (2 Sam. v, 25). As it laj' on the frontiers of Judah and Israel, Asa rebuilt Geba and Jlizpah with the stones of Ramah (1 Kings xv, 22 ; 2 Chron. xvi, 6). " From Geba (in the north) to Beersheba" (in the south) (2 Kings xxiii, 8) expressed the whole extent of the separate kingdom of Judah, just as "from Dan to Beersheba" expressed the whole length of Palestine. It would seem, from the manner in which Geba (Gaba) and Ramah are coupled in Neh. vii, SO, that they were very near each other. Reland {Palasf. p. r02) thinks it the Gtbath (rS"^!) or Gibbethon (■jir3"^;) mentioned by Talmudieal writers in connection with Antipatris (comp. 2 Sam. v, 25). During the wars of the earlier part of the reign of Saul, Geba was held as a garrison by the Philistines (1 Sam. xiii, 31, but they were eject- ed by Jonathan, a feat which, wliile it added greatly to his renown, exasperated them to a more overwhelm- ing invasion. Later in the same campaign we find it re-