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Lexicon :: Strong's H1568 - gilʿāḏ

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גִּלְעָד
Transliteration
gilʿāḏ
Pronunciation
ghil-awd'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from גַּלְעֵד (H1567)
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TWOT Reference: 356

Strong’s Definitions

גִּלְעָד Gilʻâd, ghil-awd'; probably from H1567; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites:—Gilead, Gileadite.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x

The KJV translates Strong's H1568 in the following manner: Gilead (101x), Ramothgilead (with H7433) (18x), Jabeshgilead (with H3003) (12x), Gileadites (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x
The KJV translates Strong's H1568 in the following manner: Gilead (101x), Ramothgilead (with H7433) (18x), Jabeshgilead (with H3003) (12x), Gileadites (2x).
proper locative noun
  1. Gilead = "rocky region"

    1. a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called 'Mount Gilead' or the 'land of Gilead' or just 'Gilead'. Divided into north and south Gilead

    2. a city (with prefix 'Jabesh')

    3. the people of the region

      proper masculine noun
    4. son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

    5. father of Jephthah

    6. a Gadite

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּלְעָד Gilʻâd, ghil-awd'; probably from H1567; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites:—Gilead, Gileadite.
STRONGS H1568: Abbreviations
גִּלְעָד proper name, of a location of mountain-range or hill-country, land & city, east of Jordan (compare Arabic جَلْمَدً durus, fortis Frey, so Thes; HiGeschichte. Israel 26 compare same √ used of camel (جَلْمَادً camelus robustus ac firmus, compare HomNS 144), whence camel hump, originally name of mountain) — ג׳ Genesis 37:25 + 79 times (mostly as proper name, masculine and in combination with other proper name, of a location compare below); הַגּ׳ Genesis 31:21 + 50 times (so usually as name of mountain and land); גִּלְעָ֫דָה Numbers 32:39; 1 Chronicles 27:21; הִגְּלְעָ֫דָה 2 Samuel 24:6; — Gilead, used of territory between the Arnon and the Jabbok, modern Belḳa also of that between the Jabbok and the Jarmuk, modern Jebel Ajlûn; also of the entire east Jordan land occupied by Israel, including both the parts just named (compare Di Genesis 31:54 Stu Judges 10:4; BdPal 178; also L. OliphantLand of Gilead, 1880); —
1. territory south of Jabbok,
a. אֶרֶץ הַגּ׳ Numbers 32:29 (P), אֶרֶץ ג׳ Numbers 32:1 (JE), both connected with Reuben and Gad; so חֲצִי הַר הַגּ׳ Deuteronomy 3:12; אֶרֶץ ג׳ also 1 Chronicles 5:9 (of Reuben); 1 Kings 4:19 (of Sihon and Og); compare אֶרֶץ גַּד וְג׳ 1 Samuel 13:7; further,
b. הַגּ׳ alone, Judges 10:17 (or possibly here name of city ?), Judges 11:29 (probably); also 1 Chronicles 5:10 (of Reuben) 1 Chronicles 5:16 (of Gad); compare חֲצִי וְעַד יַבֹּק הַגּ׳ Joshua 12:2 (of Sihon), so Joshua 12:5 (both D);
c. similarly ג׳ alone (without article) in poetry Psalm 60:9 (|| Manasseh) = Psalm 108:9; but also in prose in phrases שָׂרֵי ג׳ Judges 10:18, ישְׁבֵי ג׳ Judges 10:18; Judges 11:8, זִקְנֵי ג׳ Judges 11:5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, אַנְשֵׁי ג׳ Judges 12:4 (twice in verse); Judges 12:5; compare also
d. עָרֵי הַגּ׳ Numbers 32:26 (J E; of Reuben and Gad); so of Jephthah's burial-place Judges 12:7; even כָּל־עָרֵי הַגּ׳ Joshua 13:25 (P; of Gad); besides these, or particular cities, especially רָאמֹת בַּגּ׳ Deuteronomy 4:43 (of Gad); compare רָאמוֺת בַּגּ׳ Joshua 20:8 (P), 1 Chronicles 6:65 (of Gad), and רָמֹת בַּגּ׳ Joshua 21:38 (P); usually רָמֹת ג׳ [H7433 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Kings 22:3, 4, 6, 12, 15, 20, 29; 2 Chronicles 18:2, 3, 5, 11, 14, 19, 28; 2 Kings 8:28; 2 Kings 9:1, 4, 14; 2 Chronicles 22:5]; also מִצְמֵּה ג׳ Judges 11:29 (twice in verse); further יַעְזֵיר ג׳ 1 Chronicles 26:31.
2. Northern Gilead,
a. אֶרֶץ הַגּ׳ Joshua 17:5, 6 (J E; of Manasseh) compare Judges 10:4; 1 Chronicles 2:22 (both of Jair); הַר הַגּ׳ Genesis 31:21, 23, 25 (E); probably also הַר ג׳ (no article) Songs 4:1 (compare Songs 6:5 below).
b. הַגּ׳ alone Numbers 32:40 (J E; of Machir) Joshua 17:1 (J E; id.) compare Joshua 13:11 (D) Deuteronomy 2:36; 1 Kings 4:13 (of Jair); Deuteronomy 3:15, 16 (boundary of Reuben and Gad); probably also Songs 6:5 (compare Songs 4:1 above); compare יֶתֶר הַגּ׳ Deuteronomy 3:13; & חֲצִי הַגּ׳ Joshua 13:31 (P; of Machir); הַגִּלְעָ֫דָה 2 Samuel 24:6 (probably); compare also
c. ג׳ (no article) probably Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 46:11 (in both reference to צֳרִי balm, probably from the wooded Northern Gilead); similarly Jeremiah 22:6; and גִּלְעָ֫דָה 1 Chronicles 27:21 also Numbers 32:39 (J E; of Machir).
d. in combination יָבֵשׁ ג׳ (city) Judges 21:8, 9, 10, 12, 14; 1 Samuel 11:1, 9 (|| יָבֵשׁ alone) 1 Samuel 31:11 (|| id.) = 1 Chronicles 10:11; 2 Samuel 2:4, 5; 2 Samuel 21:12; perhaps also (מִ)תִּשְׁבֵּה ג׳ 1 Kings 17:1 (emendation, after Greek Version of the LXX, Ew Th and others see VB); — compare further below 6. proper name, masculine below — Judges 7:3 וְיִצְמֹּר מֵהַר הַגּ׳ and let him depart from Mt. Gilead, apparently belongs here, but מֵהַר הַגִּלְבֹּעַ is read by Cler Hi Gr Ke Be; against this compare Stu BuRS 112.
3. more generally, of all Gilead,
a. אֶרֶץ הַגּ׳ Joshua 22:9, 13, 15, 32 (P; of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh; opposed to land of Canaan); compare 2 Samuel 17:26; so כָּל־אֶרֶץ הַגּ׳ 2 Kings 10:33.
b. אֶרֶץ ג׳ (no article) Zechariah 10:10; compare הַר אֶפְרַיִם וְג׳ Jeremiah 50:19 (|| Carmel and Bashan); ג׳ alone, also Genesis 37:25; likewise Micah 7:14 (|| Carmel & Bashan, reference to fertility).
c. הַגּ׳ alone, of Israel territory in general east of Jordan, Judges 10:8; compare 2 Samuel 2:9; 2 Kings 10:33 (of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh); כָּל־הַגּ׳ Deuteronomy 3:10; אֶת־כָּל־הָאָרֶץ אֶת־הַגּ׳ Deuteronomy 34:1; הַגּ׳ also in general sense Ezekiel 47:18; 2 Kings 15:29 (?) Obadiah 19.
4. ג׳, name of a city Hosea 6:8 (& Judges 10:17 ? compare 1. a. above); — on the ruined cities Jil‘âd, Jil'‘ud on the Jebel Jil‘âd, north of Es-salṭ, and south of Jabboḳ see Di Genesis 31:54 & references
5. אֶרֶץ הַגּ׳ of Israelites living east of Jordan (as a whole) Judges 20:1; הַגּ׳ of people of Gilead Amos 1:3, 13; so ג׳ Judges 5:17 (= גַּד), Judges 12:4, 5 (|| אַנְשֵׁי ג׳ Judges 12:4; Judges 12:4; Judges 12:5) Hosea 12:12. compare also גִּלְעָדִי below.
6. treated as proper name, masculine.
a. ג׳, son of Machir & grandson of Manasseh Numbers 26:29 (twice in verse); Numbers 26:30; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:1; Joshua 17:3 (all P) 1 Chronicles 2:21, 23; 1 Chronicles 7:14, 17; once הַגּ׳ Joshua 17:1 (JE) compare Di; — reference in all these to Northern Gilead.
b. father of Jephthah Judges 11:1, 2; — reference to Gad (compare above especially below 5).
c. 1 Chronicles 5:14 (a Gadite).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:21; 31:21; 31:23; 31:25; 31:54; 31:54; 37:25; 37:25

Numbers

26:29; 26:30; 27:1; 32:1; 32:26; 32:29; 32:39; 32:39; 32:40; 36:1

Deuteronomy

2:36; 3:10; 3:12; 3:13; 3:15; 3:16; 4:43; 34:1

Joshua

12:2; 12:5; 13:11; 13:25; 13:31; 17:1; 17:1; 17:3; 17:5; 17:6; 20:8; 21:38; 22:9; 22:13; 22:15; 22:32

Judges

5:17; 7:3; 10:4; 10:4; 10:8; 10:17; 10:17; 10:18; 10:18; 11:1; 11:2; 11:5; 11:7; 11:8; 11:8; 11:9; 11:10; 11:11; 11:29; 11:29; 12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:5; 12:5; 12:5; 12:7; 20:1; 21:8; 21:9; 21:10; 21:12; 21:14

1 Samuel

11:1; 11:9; 13:7; 31:11

2 Samuel

2:4; 2:5; 2:9; 17:26; 21:12; 24:6; 24:6

1 Kings

4:13; 4:19; 17:1

2 Kings

10:33; 10:33; 15:29

1 Chronicles

2:21; 2:22; 2:23; 5:9; 5:10; 5:14; 5:16; 6:65; 7:14; 7:17; 10:11; 26:31; 27:21; 27:21

Psalms

60:9; 108:9

Song of Songs

4:1; 4:1; 6:5; 6:5

Jeremiah

8:22; 22:6; 46:11; 50:19

Ezekiel

47:18

Hosea

6:8; 12:12

Amos

1:3; 1:13

Obadiah

1:19

Micah

7:14

Zechariah

10:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1568 matches the Hebrew גִּלְעָד (gilʿāḏ),
which occurs 134 times in 123 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Jdg 11:29–2Ch 18:2)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:29 -

Now the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, so that he passed through Gilead H1568 and Manasseh; then he passed through Mizpah of Gilead H1568, and from Mizpah of Gilead H1568 he went on to the sons of Ammon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead H1568 and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead H1568 struck Ephraim down because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, O Gileadites H1568, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - And the Gileadites H1568 captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead H1568 would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 -

And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead H1568.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:1 -

Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead H1568, came out, and the congregation assembled as one man to Yahweh at Mizpah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 -

So they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead H1568 to the assembly.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:9 - Indeed the people were [fn]numbered, but behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead H1568 was there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent 12,000 of the men of valor there and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead H1568 with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead H1568 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with [fn]him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - Then Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead H1568; yet they did not find [fn]enough for them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:1 -

And Nahash the Ammonite came up and [fn]besieged Jabesh-gilead H1568; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Cut a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead H1568, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have salvation.’” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:7 - Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead H1568. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:11 - Then the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead H1568 heard [fn]what the Philistines had done to Saul,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:4 - Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah.

And they told David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead H1568 who buried Saul.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead H1568, and said to them, “May you be blessed of Yahweh because you have [fn]shown this lovingkindness with your lord, with Saul, and have buried him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:9 - And he made him king over Gilead H1568, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, even over all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:26 - And Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead H1568.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead H1568, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:6 - Then they came to Gilead H1568 and to [fn]the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:13 -

Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (now [fn]Havvoth-JairJair being the son of Manasseh—which is in Gilead H1568 was his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:19 -

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead H1568, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 -

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of [fn]the settlers of Gilead H1568, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:3 - Then the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, but we are sitting still so as not to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:4 - So he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:12 - All the prophets were also prophesying thus, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:15 -

Then he came to the king, and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he said to him, “Go up and succeed, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20 - “And Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:29 -

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:28 -

Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war with Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans struck Joram.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 -

Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:4 -

So the young man—the young man of the prophet—went to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:14 -

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram [fn]with all Israel was [fn]guarding Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise, all the land of Gilead H1568, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead H1568 and Bashan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29 -

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, [fn]Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead H1568 and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he took them away into exile to Assyria.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:21 -

Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead H1568, whom he took as a wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:22 -

Segub became the father of Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead H1568.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 -

But Geshur and Aram took [fn]Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead H1568.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - To the east he lived as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle had increased in the land of Gilead H1568.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, and they fell by their hand. So they lived in their tents throughout [fn]all the land east of Gilead H1568.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:14 - These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri,

the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead H1568,

the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai,

the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:16 - They lived in Gilead H1568, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their [fn]borders.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:80 -

and from the tribe of Gad:

Ramoth in Gilead H1568 with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:14 -

The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead H1568.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:17 - The [fn]son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead H1568 the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:11 - Then all Jabesh-gilead H1568 heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief [fn](these Hebronites were investigated according to their generations and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and mighty men of valor were found among them at Jazer of Gilead H1568)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:21 -

for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead H1568, Iddo the son of Zechariah;

for Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - And some years later he went down to Ahab at Samaria. And Ahab sacrificed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people who were with him, and incited him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

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