Bible Dictionary

Gebim

Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-Isawiyeh.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(grasshoppers), a village north of Jerusalem, (Isaiah 10:31) apparently between Anathoth (the modern Anata) and the ridge on which Nob was situated.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

GE'BIM (ditches), a place near Jerusalem. Isa 10:31. Conder places it at el-Jib; Grove at el-Isawiyeh.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

grasshoppers; height