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Lexicon :: Strong's G1066 - gedeōn

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Γεδεών
Transliteration
gedeōn (Key)
Pronunciation
ghed-eh-own'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin גִּדְעוֹן (H1439)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
44x in 1 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

Γεδεών Gedeṓn, ghed-eh-own'; of Hebrew origin (H1439); Gedeon (i.e. Gid(e)on), an Israelite:—Gedeon (in the King James Version).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G1066 in the following manner: Gedeon (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G1066 in the following manner: Gedeon (1x).

  1. Gideon = "the cutter down"

    1. a of the judge of Israel who delivered them from the Midianites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Γεδεών Gedeṓn, ghed-eh-own'; of Hebrew origin (H1439); Gedeon (i.e. Gid(e)on), an Israelite:—Gedeon (in the King James Version).
STRONGS G1066:
Γεδεών, ὁ, indeclinable [in the Bible (cf. Buttmann, p. 15 (14)), and in Suidas (e. g. 1737 a.); but] in Josephus, Antiquities 5, 6 [3 and] 4 Γεδεών, -ῶνος, (גִּדְעוֹן cutting off, [others, tree-feller i. e. mighty warrior], from גָּדַע ), Gideon, a leader of the Israelites, who delivered them from the power of the Midianites (Judges 6-8): Hebrews 11:32 [where A. V. unfortunately follows the Greek spelling Gedeon].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges
6-8
Hebrews
11:32

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1066 matches the Greek Γεδεών (gedeōn),
which occurs 44 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the [fn]oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - He said to Him, “O Lord, [fn]how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - So [fn]Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:19 - Then Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an [fn]ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket [fn]and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the [fn]oak and presented them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD, [fn]he said, “Alas, O Lord [fn]GOD! For now 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 - Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it [fn]The LORD is Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They said to one another, “Who did this thing?” And when they searched about and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash did this thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:34 - So the Spirit of the LORD [fn]came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together to follow him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel [fn]through me, as You have spoken,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:38 - And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside [fn]the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of [fn]them by 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, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel [fn]would become boastful, saying, ‘My own [fn]power has delivered me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - Then the LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘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 he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his [fn]home.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I [fn]had a dream; [fn]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it [fn]upside down so that the tent lay flat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the camp of Midian 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 the trumpet, then you also blow the trumpets all around the camp and say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - When the three [fn]companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “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 all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down [fn]against Midian and take the waters before them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned and they took the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They captured the two leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - Then Gideon and the 300 men who were with him came to the Jordan and crossed over, weary yet pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Gideon said, “[fn]All right, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will [fn]thrash your [fn]bodies with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and [fn]attacked the camp when the camp was [fn]unsuspecting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle [fn]by the ascent of Heres.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - He came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘[fn]Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise up yourself, and fall on us; for as the man, so is his strength.” So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels’ necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son, also your son’s son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Yet Gideon said to them, “I would [fn]request of you, that each of you give me [fn]an earring from his spoil.” (For they had gold earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their heads anymore. And the land was undisturbed for forty years in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Now Gideon had seventy sons who [fn]were his direct descendants, for he had many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - And Gideon the son of Joash died at a ripe 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 - Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in accord with all the good that he had done to Israel.
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