Lexical Summary Gibon: a Levitical city in Benjamin Original Word: גִּבְעוֹןTransliteration: Gibon Phonetic Spelling: (ghib-ohn') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a Levitical city in Benjamin Meaning: Gibeon -- a Levitical city in Benjamin Strong's Concordance Gibeon From the same as Geba'; hilly; Gibon, a place in Palestine -- Gibeon. see HEBREW Geba' Brown-Driver-Briggs H1391. Gibon 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; 10:2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 41; 11:19; 18:25; 21:17; 2 Samuel 2:12-13, (pool of Gibeon) 2:16; 3:30; 20:8; Jeremiah 28:1; 41:12 (great waters which are in Gibeon) 41:16; 1 Chronicles 14:16; see especially ג ׳אַנְשֵׁי ג, ׳יוֺשְׁבַי Joshua 9:3, (called Hivites 9:7) 10:1, 6; 11:19; Nehemiah 3:7, so ג ׳בְּנֵי 7:25 (= גִבָּר בְּנֵי Ezra 2:20, see גִּבָּר); compare also as proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 8:29 גִבְעוֺן אֲבִי יָָֽשְׁבו וּבְגִבְעוֺן = 9:35; compare ג ׳מִדְבַּר 2 Samuel 2:24, בְּג ׳עֵמֶק Isaiah 28:21; it was the site of great Bamah 1 Kings 3:4-5, 9:2, where was 'the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place' according to 1 Chronicles 16:39; compare 21:20; 2 Chronicles 1:13 (twice in verse). |
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