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Lexicon :: Strong's H1391 - giḇʿôn

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גִּבְעוֹן
Transliteration
giḇʿôn
Pronunciation
ghib-ohn'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as גֶּבַע (H1387)
Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: גבעון.

Strong’s Definitions

גִּבְעוֹן Gibʻôwn, ghib-ohn'; from the same as H1387; hilly; Gibon, a place in Palestine:—Gibeon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H1391 in the following manner: Gibeon (37x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H1391 in the following manner: Gibeon (37x).

  1. Gibeon = "hill city"

    1. a Levitical city of Benjamin, modern 'el-Jib', which lies 5 miles or 8 km from Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּבְעוֹן Gibʻôwn, ghib-ohn'; from the same as H1387; hilly; Gibon, a place in Palestine:—Gibeon.
STRONGS H1391: Abbreviations
† גִּבְעוֺן proper name, of a location — ג׳ Joshua 9:17 +; with ָ  ה locative; גִּבְע֫וֺנָה 2 Samuel 2:12 compare 1 Kings 3:4; — Levitical city in tribe of Benjamin; formerly inhabited by Hivites Joshua 9:17; Joshua 10:2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 41; Joshua 11:19; Joshua 18:25; Joshua 21:17; 2 Samuel 2:12, 13 (pool of Gibeon) 2 Samuel 2:16; 2 Samuel 3:30; 2 Samuel 20:8; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 41:12 (great waters which are in Gibeon) Jeremiah 41:16; 1 Chronicles 14:16; see especially יוֺשְׁבַי ג׳, אַנְשֵׁי ג׳ Joshua 9:3, (called Hivites Joshua 9:7) Joshua 10:1, 6; Joshua 11:19; Nehemiah 3:7, so בְּנֵי ג׳ Nehemiah 7:25
[H1402 (= בְּנֵי גִבָּר Ezra 2:20, see גִּבָּר)];
compare also H25 as proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 8:29 גִבְעוֺן אֲבִי יָֽשְׁבוּ וּבְגִבְעוֺן = 1 Chronicles 9:35; compare מִדְבַּר ג׳ 2 Samuel 2:24, עֵמֶק בְּג׳ Isaiah 28:21; it was the site of great Bamah 1 Kings 3:4, 5; 1 Kings 9:2, where was 'the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place' according to 1 Chronicles 16:39; compare 1 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Chronicles 1:13 (twice in verse).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

9:3; 9:7; 9:17; 9:17; 10:1; 10:2; 10:4; 10:5; 10:6; 10:10; 10:12; 10:41; 11:19; 11:19; 18:25; 21:17

2 Samuel

2:12; 2:12; 2:13; 2:16; 2:24; 3:30; 20:8

1 Kings

3:4; 3:4; 3:5; 9:2

1 Chronicles

8:29; 9:35; 14:16; 16:39; 21:20

2 Chronicles

1:13

Nehemiah

3:7; 7:25

Isaiah

28:21

Jeremiah

28:1; 41:12; 41:16

H1391

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1391 matches the Hebrew גִּבְעוֹן (giḇʿôn),
which occurs 37 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed[fn] it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and had become their allies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:2 - He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:4 - “Come up and help me attack Gibeon,” he said, “because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - Then the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon—joined forces. They moved up with all their troops and took up positions against Gibeon and attacked it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - The Gibeonites then sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, because all the Amorite kings from the hill country have joined forces against us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - The LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:41 - Joshua subdued them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the whole region of Goshen to Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:19 - Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:25 - Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:17 - And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:12 - Abner son of Ner, together with the men of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - Joab son of Zeruiah and David’s men went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. One group sat down on one side of the pool and one group on the other side.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his dagger into his opponent’s side, and they fell down together. So that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.[fn]

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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 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:8 - While they were at the great rock in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4 - The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5 - At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:2 - the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:29 - Jeiel[fn] the father[fn] of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maakah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:35 - Jeiel the father[fn] of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maakah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:16 - So David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army, all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God’s tent of meeting was there, which Moses the LORD’s servant had made in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - Then Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting. And he reigned over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:7 - Next to them, repairs were made by men from Gibeon and Mizpah—Melatiah of Gibeon and Jadon of Meronoth—places under the authority of the governor of Trans-Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:25 -
of Gibeon95

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:1 - In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:12 - they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the great pool in Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon.
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