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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 angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:19 - Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah[fn] of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:24 - So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands 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 as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:34 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon, and 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 will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - But the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down 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 that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands.”

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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, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Gideon son of Joash then 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, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.’ ” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels’ necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - But Gideon told 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 - And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.
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