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Lexicon :: Strong's H1439 - giḏʿôn

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גִּדְעוֹן
Transliteration
giḏʿôn
Pronunciation
ghid-ohn'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 316a

Strong’s Definitions

גִּדְעוֹן Gidʻôwn, ghid-ohn'; from H1438; feller (i.e. warrior); Gidon, an Israelite:—Gideon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H1439 in the following manner: Gideon (39x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H1439 in the following manner: Gideon (39x).

  1. Gideon = "hewer"

    1. youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, fifth judge of Israel who led the Israelites against the Midianites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּדְעוֹן Gidʻôwn, ghid-ohn'; from H1438; feller (i.e. warrior); Gidon, an Israelite:—Gideon.
STRONGS H1439: Abbreviations
גִּדִעוֺן proper name, masculine judge of Israel Judges 6:11, 13, 19 + 36 times Judges 6-8; — called also יְרֻבַּעַל (which see) Judges 6:32; Judges 7:1 etc., & יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת (which see) 2 Samuel 11:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

6:11; 6:13; 6:19; 6:32; 7:1

2 Samuel

11:21

H1439

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1439 matches the Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (giḏʿôn),
which occurs 39 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - The LORD's angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Gideon said to him, "Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 'Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:19 - Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - When Gideon realized that it was the LORD's messenger, he said, "Oh no! Master, LORD! I have seen the LORD's messenger face to face!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:24 - Gideon built an altar for the LORD there, and named it "The LORD is on friendly terms with me." To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten of his servants and did just as the LORD had told him. He was too afraid of his father's family and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They said to one another, "Who did this?" They investigated the matter thoroughly and concluded that Gideon son of Joash had done it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:34 - The LORD's spirit took control of Gideon. He blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Gideon said to God, "If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Gideon said to God, "Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. The Midianites were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag, 'Our own strength has delivered us.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - The LORD spoke to Gideon again, "There are still too many men. Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. When I say, 'This one should go with you,' pick him to go; when I say, 'This one should not go with you,' do not take him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the men down to the water. Then the LORD said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army and I will hand Midian over to you. The rest of the men should go home."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said, "Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - The other man said, "Without a doubt this symbolizes the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up, for the LORD is handing the Midianite army over to you!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, 'For the LORD and for Gideon!'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. Then they yelled, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, "Go down and head off the Midianites. Take control of the fords of the streams all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River." When all the Ephraimites had assembled, they took control of the fords all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb. They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Gideon said, "Since you will not help, after the LORD hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh your skin with desert thorns and briers."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up the road of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle by the pass of Heres.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, "Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength." So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - The men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us - you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian's power."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Gideon continued, "I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken." (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites' fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon's time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - Gideon son of Joash died at a very old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - They did not treat the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.
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