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Strong's #1387 - גֶּבַע

Transliteration
Gebaʻ
Phonetics
gheh'-bah
Origin
from the same as (H1375)
Parts of Speech
proper noun, location
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = “hill”

1) 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’

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (19)
Joshua 2
Judges 2
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
NAS (17)
Joshua 2
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
HCS (19)
Joshua 2
Judges 2
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
BSB (18)
Joshua 2
Judges 1
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
ESV (18)
Joshua 2
Judges 1
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
WEB (19)
Joshua 2
Judges 2
1 Samuel 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 1
Ezra 1
Nehemiah 3
Isaiah 1
Zechariah 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 גֶּ֫בַע proper name, of a location׳ג absolute Joshua 21:17 +; construct Judges 20:10 +; גָּ֑בַע Joshua 18:24 +; — Levitical city, in Benjamin Joshua 21:17 = 1 Chronicles 6:45; Joshua 18:24 compare 1 Chronicles 8:6; 1 Kings 15:22; Nehemiah 11:31; also 1 Samuel 13:16 & Judges 20:10,33 ᵑ0, in all three read (גִּבְעַת) גִּבְעָה, compare context; — northernmost city in kingdom of Judah 2 Kings 23:8 from Geba to Beersheba, compare Zechariah 14:10; situated south of pass of Michmash Isaiah 10:29; 1 Samuel 14:5 compare 1 Samuel 13:3; mentioned also 2 Chronicles 16:6; Ezra 2:26; Nehemiah 7:30; Nehemiah 12:29; in 1 Samuel 13:18 ᵐ5 We Dr read הַגֶּבַע for ᵑ0גְּבוּל q. v.; ( 2 Samuel 5:25 read גבעון with ᵐ5 and 1 Chronicles 14:16). — Modern Jeba` Rob BR i. 440f. Bd Pal 120.


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

גֶּבַע (“hill”), [Geba, Gibeah, Gaba], pr.n. of a Levitical city in the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:24, 21:17 ), situated on the northern limits of the kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 23:8; Zechariah 14:10); more fully גֶּבַע בִּנְיָמִין 1 Samuel 13:16.


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List of Word Forms
בְּגֶ֔בַע בְּגֶ֣בַע בגבע גֶ֔בַע גֶּ֖בַע גֶּ֤בַע גֶּ֥בַע גָּֽבַע׃ גבע גבע׃ וָגָ֑בַע וָגָ֔בַע וגבע לְגֶ֣בַע לגבע מִגֶּ֖בַע מִגֶּ֣בַע מִגָּ֑בַע מגבע bə·ḡe·ḇa‘ bəḡeḇa‘ beGeva gā·ḇa‘ gāḇa‘ Gava ge·ḇa‘ ḡe·ḇa‘ geḇa‘ ḡeḇa‘ Geva lə·ḡe·ḇa‘ ləḡeḇa‘ leGeva mig·gā·ḇa‘ mig·ge·ḇa‘ miggāḇa‘ migGava miggeḇa‘ migGeva vaGava wā·ḡā·ḇa‘ wāḡāḇa‘
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