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Strong's #1389 - גִּבְעָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- hill
- hill (lower than a mountain)
- as a place of illicit worship
- poetic for mountain
- used in place names
- Book
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did not use
this Strong's Number
2051) obc (גבאה GBAh) AC: ? CO: Hill AB: ?: [from: bc]
Nf1 ) eobc (גבאהה GBAhH) - Hill: KJV (69): hill - Strongs: H1389 (גִּבְעָה)
bm) oibc (גביאה GBYAh) - Bowl: As with high sides. KJV (14): bowl, cup, pot - Strongs: H1375 (גָּבִיעַ)
hbf2) toibcm (מגביאהת MGBYAhT) - Turban: As high on the head. KJV (4): bonnet - Strongs: H4021 (מִגְבָּעָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 in ordinary prose, hill, lower than mountain Exodus 17:9,10 (E) 2 Samuel 2:25; it may be proper name in 1 Samuel 7:1; 1 Samuel 10:10; 2 Samuel 6:3,4see also below II. גִּבְעָה.
2 especially as place of illicit worship גְּבֹהָה ותחת כל עץ רענן׳עַל כָּלגֿ 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10; Jeremiah 2:20; compare Deuteronomy 12:2; 2 Kings 16:4; 2 Chronicles 28:4 (these two + במות); also Hosea 4:13; Jeremiah 13:27; Jeremiah 17:2; Ezekiel 6:13 (see above).
3 very commonly "" הר in poetry & prophets Deuteronomy 33:15; Psalm 72:3; Psalm 114:4; Psalm 114:6; Psalm 148:9; Song of Solomon 2:8; Song of Solomon 4:6; Isaiah 2:2,14; Isaiah 30:17,25; Isaiah 31:4; Isaiah 40:4,12; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 42:15; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 55:12; Isaiah 65:7; Jeremiah 3:23; Jeremiah 4:24; Jeremiah 16:16; Jeremiah 50:7; Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekiel 34:6; Ezekiel 35:8; Ezekiel 36:4,6; Hosea 4:13; Hosea 10:8; Joshua 4:18; Amos 9:13; Micah 4:1; Micah 6:1; Nahum 1:5; Habakkuk 3:6; rarely in prose Deuteronomy 12:2; sometimes as high and majestic (poetry) עולם׳ג Genesis 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:15; Habakkuk 3:6 ('everlasting hills'); compare also Job 15:7; Proverbs 8:25(with adjective high, compare above); see also Jeremiah 49:16.
4 hills with special names, some nearly or quite = proper name, of a location, which see under the respective words: מֹרֶה׳ג Judges 7:1 teacher's hill, in valley of Jezreel; הָעֲרָלוֺת׳ג Joshua 5:3 hill of the fore-skins; הָאֱלֹהִים׳ג 1 Samuel 10:5 (a designation of Gibeah); הַחֲכִילָה׳ג 1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 26:1,3; אַמָּה׳ג 2 Samuel 2:24; הַלְּבוֺנָה׳ג Song of Solomon 4:6 (i.e. hill where frankincense is grown); גָּרֵב֑׳ג Jeremiah 31:39; יְרוּשָׁלַם׳ג Isaiah 10:32; compare Isaiah 31:4 (where "" הַרצִֿיּוֺן), Ezekiel 34:26 (see above) & הַגְּבָעוֺת Zephaniah 1:10 hills on which Jerusalem stands.
גִּבְעָה pl. גְּבָעוֹת f.
(1) a hill, 2 Samuel 2:25; Isaiah 40:12, 41:15 Song of Solomon 2:8, etc.; גִּבְעֹת עוֹלָם the ancient hills, the same from the creation of the world to this day, Gen, 49:26 Job 15:7, לִפְנֵי גְבָעוֹת חוֹלַלְתָּ “wast thou born before the hills?” Proverbs 8:25 גִּבְעַת יְהֹוָה “the hill of Jehovah,” Zion, Ezekiel 34:26 compare Isaiah 31:4. Many of the hills of Palestine were designated by proper names (אַמָּה, גָּרֵב, חֲכִילָה), in other places the name of hill is applied
(2) To a town situated on a hill (compare dunum in the ancient cities of Germany, Gaul, and Britain, which in Celtic signifies a hill [rather a fortress], Augustodunum, Cæsarodunum, Lugdunum, etc.), [Gibeah, the hill], as
(a) גִּבְעַת בִּנְיָמִין 1 Samuel 13:15 בִנְיָמִין ג׳ בְּנֵי 2 Samuel 23:29, “Gibeah of the Benjamites;” also גִּבְעַת שָׁאוּל 1 Samuel 11:4 גִּבְעַת הָאֱלֹהִים 1 Samuel 10:5 compare 10 1 Samuel 10:10, κατʼ ἐξοχὴν הַגִּבְעָה Hosea 5:8, 9:9 10:9 and גִּבְעָה 1 Samuel 10:26, etc., a town of the Benjamites where Saul was born, infamous for an outrage of the inhabitants (Judges 19:12, seq.; 20:4, seq.), but equally with Bethel reckoned among the ancient sanctuaries of Palestine [???] (1 Samuel 10:5, 1 Samuel 10:6). Gent. n. גִּבְעָתִי 1 Chronicles 12:3. [This town is now prob. called Jeba’ جبع, Rob. ii. 114.]
(b) גִּבְעַת פִּֽינְחָס (hill of Phinehas) in Mount Ephraim, Joshua 24:33.
(c) גִּבְעָה a town in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:57.