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HebrewH1391Noun

גִּבְעוֹן

giv.on

35Occurrences
H1391Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Gibon, a place in Palestine

from the same as H1387 (גֶּבַע); hilly;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Gibeon = "hill city" a Levitical city of Benjamin, modern 'el-Jib', which lies 5 miles or 8 km from Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

גִּבְעוֹן appears 35 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
13
2 Samuel
6
1 Chronicles
5
1 Kings
3
Jeremiah
3
2 Chronicles
2
Nehemiah
2
Isaiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 14:16BSB

So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

1 Kings 9:2BSB

the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

2 Samuel 20:8BSB

And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them.Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

Joshua 10:2BSB

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 11:19BSB

No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.