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Strong's #1390 - גִּבְעָה
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- Gibeah = "hill"
- a city in the mountain district of Judah
- a city of Benjamin, birthplace of king Saul
- a city in Kirjath-jearim of Ephraim
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1 a city of Judah Joshua 15:57 (perhaps one of two villages called Gabaa, Gabatha in Onomasticon see Lag Onom. 246,128; 2nd ed 255,160).
2 city of Benjamin Judges 19:14,16 20t. Judges; 1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 14:2; 1 Samuel 22:6; 1 Samuel 26:1; 2 Samuel 23:29 = 1 Chronicles 11:31; also Hosea 5:8; Hosea 9:9; Hosea 10:9 (twice in verse) (compare Judges 19:12 ff. Judges 13:2; perhaps also 1 Samuel 7:1; 1 Samuel 10:10; 2 Samuel 6:3,4read also (for גבע) 1 Samuel 13:16 Judges 20:10,33; = גִּבְעַת Joshua 18:28; called also גִּבְעַת בִּנְיָמִין 1 Samuel 13:2,15; 1 Samuel 14:16, & גִּבְעַת שָׁאוּל 1 Samuel 11:4; 1 Samuel 15:34; Isaiah 10:29; 2 Samuel 21:6 read probably גִּבְעוֺןᵐ5 We Dr.
3 a city of Ephraim, called גִּבְעַת ִמּינְחָס Joshua 24:33.
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.
