Gesham
(filthy) (sometimes written GESHAN), one of the sons of Judah, in the genealogy of Judah and family of Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:47)
Geshem
Or Gashmu, firmness, probably chief of the Arabs south of Palestine, one of the enemies of the Jews after the return from Babylon (Neh. 2:19; 6:1, 2). He united with Sanballat and Tobiah in opposing …
Geshur
Bridge, the name of a district or principality of Syria near Gilead, between Mount Hermon and the Lake of Tiberias (2 Sam. 15:8; 1 Chr. 2:23). The Geshurites probably inhabited the rocky fastness of …
Geshuri
GESH'URI, and THE GESH'URITES. The inhabitants of Geshur. Deut 3:14; Josh 12:5; Acts 13:11, Josh 13:13. An ancient tribe bordering on the Philistines to the south. Josh 13:2.
Geshurites
(1.) The inhabitants of Geshur. They maintained friendly relations with the Israelites on the east of Jordan (Josh. 12:5; 13:11, 13). (2.) Another aboriginal people of Palestine who inhabited the sou…
Gether
(fear), the third in order of the sons of Aram. (Genesis 10:23) No satisfactory trace of the people sprung from this stock has been found.
Gethsemane
Oil-press, the name of an olive-yard at the foot of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus was wont to retire (Luke 22:39) with his disciples, and which is specially memorable as being the scene of his …
Geuel
(majesty of God), son of Machi the Gadite spy. (Numbers 13:15) (B.C 1490.)
Gezer
A precipice, an ancient royal Canaanitish city (Josh. 10:33; 12:12). It was allotted with its suburbs to the Kohathite Levites (21:21; 1 Chr. 6:67). It stood between the lower Beth-horon and the sea …
Gezrites
GEZ'RITES (dwellers in a barren land), a tribe in the time of Saul, who Garden of Gethsemane. (After Photographs by the Palestine Fund.) shared with the Geshurites and Amalekites the land between the…
Gezrites The
The word which the Jewish critics have substituted in the margin of the Bible for the ancient reading, “the Gerizite.” (1 Samuel 27:8) [Gerizites, THE]
Ghost.
GHOST. Gen 25:8. To "give up the ghost" means to expire, "Ghost" is used by Shakespeare and other English writers as synonymous with "spirit." The words in Matt 27:50 would be better translated:" Chr…
Giah
(a waterfall), a place named only in (2 Samuel 2:24) to designate the position of the hill Ammah.
Giant
GI'ANT denotes men of extraordinary size or height. Gen 6:4. The sons of Anak are usually looked upon as giants, on account of the expression of which the spies made use — that they were "as grasshop…
Giants
(1.) Heb. nephilim, meaning “violent” or “causing to fall” (Gen. 6:4). These were the violent tyrants of those days, those who fell upon others. The word may also be derived from a root signifying “w…
Gibbar
(gigantic), the father of some who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. (Ezra 2:20)
Gibbethon
A height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan, given to the Kohathites (Josh. 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the king of Israel, while besieging it, was slain under its walls by Baasha, one of hi…
Gibea
(a hill). Sheva “the father of Macbenah” and “father of Gibea” is mentioned with other names, unmistakably those of places and not persons, among the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 2:49) comp. 1…
Gibeah
A hill or hill-town, “of Benjamin” (1 Sam. 13:15), better known as “Gibeah of Saul” (11:4; Isa. 10:29). It was here that the terrible outrage was committed on the Levite’s concubine which led to the …
Gibeah Of Judah
(Josh. 15:57), a city in the mountains of Judah, the modern Jeba, on a hill in the Wady Musurr, about 7 1/2 miles west-south-west of Bethlehem.
Gibeah Of Phinehas
(Josh. 15:57, R.V. marg.), a city on Mount Ephraim which had been given to Phinehas (24:33 “hill,” A.V.; R.V. marg. and Heb., “Gibeah.”). Here Eleazar the son of Aaron was buried. It has been identif…
Gibeah-haaraloth
(Josh. 5:3, marg.), hill of the foreskins, a place at Gilgal where those who had been born in the wilderness were circumcised. All the others, i.e., those who were under twenty years old at the time …
Gibeath
probably the same as, Gibeah OF Benjamin, The Land Of. (Joshua 18:28)
Gibeon
Hill-city, “one of the royal cities, greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty” (Josh. 10:2). Its inhabitants were Hivites (11:19). It lay within the territory of Benjamin, and became a pr…
Gibeonites
GIB'EONITES, the inhabitants of Gibeon, 2 Sam 21:1-4, 2 Sam 21:9.
Gibeonites, The
the people of Gibeon, and perhaps also of the three cities associated with Gibeon, (Joshua 9:17)—Hivites; and who, on the discover of the stratagem by which they had obtained the protection of the Is…
Giblites
GIB'LITES, THE, a people inhabiting Gebel, Josh 13:5.
Giblites, The
[Gebal]
Giddalti
(I have trained up), one of the sons of Heman, the king’s seer. (1 Chronicles 25:4)
Giddel
(very great).