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Lexicon :: Strong's H1389 - giḇʿâ

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גִּבְעָה
Transliteration
giḇʿâ
Pronunciation
ghib-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as גֶּבַע (H1387)
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TWOT Reference: 309a

Strong’s Definitions

גִּבְעָה gibʻâh, ghib-aw'; feminine from the same as H1387; a hillock:—hill, little hill.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x

The KJV translates Strong's H1389 in the following manner: hill (69x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x
The KJV translates Strong's H1389 in the following manner: hill (69x).

  1. hill

    1. hill (lower than a mountain)

    2. as a place of illicit worship

    3. poetic for mountain

    4. used in place names

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּבְעָה gibʻâh, ghib-aw'; feminine from the same as H1387; a hillock:—hill, little hill.
STRONGS H1389: Abbreviations
† I. גִּבְעָה noun feminine hill — absolute גִּבְעָה 2 Samuel 2:25 + 13 times + Ezekiel 6:13 (strike out Co which see) 1 Samuel 7:1; 2 Samuel 6:3, 4 (compare Dr); construct גִּבְעַת Joshua 5:3 + 8 times + 1 Samuel 10:5 (compare Dr); suffix גִּבְעָתִי Ezekiel 34:26 (but strike out Co), גִּבְעָתָהּ Isaiah 31:4; plural absolute גְּבָעוֺת Deuteronomy 12:2 + 35 times; construct גִּבְעוֺת Deuteronomy 33:15; Habakkuk 3:6, גִּבְעֹת Genesis 49:26; suffix גִּבְעוֺתֶיךָ Ezekiel 35:8; — hill, height, elevation, both high and low, compare Psalm 148:9 ההרים וכל גבעות, Psalm 65:13; —
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, 4 see also below H1390 II. גִּבְעָה.
2. especially as place of illicit worship גְּבֹהָה ותחת כל עץ רענן עַל כָּל־ג׳ 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; Songs 2:8; Songs 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׳ Songs 4:6 (i.e. hill where frankincense is grown); גָּרֵב֑ ג׳ Jeremiah 31:39; יְרוּשָׁלַם ג׳ Isaiah 10:32; compare Isaiah 31:4 (where || הַר־צִיּוֺן), Ezekiel 34:26 (see above) & הַגְּבָעוֺת Zephaniah 1:10 hills on which Jerusalem stands.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:26; 49:26

Exodus

17:9; 17:10

Deuteronomy

12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 33:15; 33:15; 33:15

Joshua

4:18; 5:3; 5:3

Judges

7:1

1 Samuel

7:1; 7:1; 10:5; 10:5; 10:10; 23:19; 26:1; 26:3

2 Samuel

2:24; 2:25; 2:25; 6:3; 6:3; 6:4; 6:4

1 Kings

14:23

2 Kings

16:4; 17:10

2 Chronicles

28:4

Job

15:7

Psalms

65:13; 72:3; 114:4; 114:6; 148:9; 148:9

Proverbs

8:25

Song of Songs

2:8; 4:6; 4:6

Isaiah

2:2; 2:14; 10:32; 30:17; 30:25; 31:4; 31:4; 31:4; 40:4; 40:12; 41:15; 42:15; 54:10; 55:12; 65:7

Jeremiah

2:20; 3:23; 4:24; 13:27; 16:16; 17:2; 31:39; 49:16; 50:7

Ezekiel

6:3; 6:13; 6:13; 34:6; 34:26; 34:26; 35:8; 35:8; 36:4; 36:6

Hosea

4:13; 4:13; 10:8

Amos

9:13

Micah

4:1; 6:1

Nahum

1:5

Habakkuk

3:6; 3:6; 3:6

Zephaniah

1:10

H1389

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Strong's Number H1389 matches the Hebrew גִּבְעָה (giḇʿâ),
which occurs 71 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 49:26–Jer 16:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than[fn] the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among[fn] his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:9 - Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:10 - So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:15 - with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

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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 Box 1Sa 7:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:1 - So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD. They brought it to Abinadab’s house on the hill and consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - “After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:10 - When he and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:19 - The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:1 - The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which faces Jeshimon?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:3 - Saul made his camp beside the road on the hill of Hakilah facing Jeshimon, but David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had followed him there,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and as the sun was setting, they came to the hill of Ammah, near Giah on the way to the wasteland of Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:25 - Then the men of Benjamin rallied behind Abner. They formed themselves into a group and took their stand on top of a hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:3 - They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:4 - with the ark of God on it,[fn] and Ahio was walking in front of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4 - He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:4 - He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 - “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:12 - The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:3 - May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:4 - the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:6 - Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:9 - you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:8 - Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 - In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:14 - for all the towering mountains and all the high hills,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:32 - This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 - A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:25 - In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - This is what the LORD says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:4 - Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:15 - “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 - I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 - You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,” says the LORD. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:24 - I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.

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