Lexicon / H1568
גִּלְעָד
gil.ad
  • Gilead
  • (Mount) Gilead
  • (Jabesh)-gilead
  • (Ramoth)-gilead

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Glosses: Gilead; (Mount) Gilead; (Jabesh)-gilead; (Ramoth)-gilead

Gilead = "rocky region"

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

Also named: gil.a.di (גִּלְעָדִי "Gileadite" H1569)

A man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.29;

son of: Machir (H4353);

brother of: daughter_of_Machir (H4353I), Peresh (H6570), Sheresh (H8329) and Hammolecheth (H4447);

father of: Abiezer (H0044I), Helek (H2507), Asriel (H0844), Shechem (H7928), Shemida (H8061) and Hepher (H2660A)

§ 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

4) son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

5) father of Jephthah

6) a Gadite

A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.11.1;

father of: Jephthah (H3316H)

§ 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

4) son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

5) father of Jephthah

6) a Gadite

A man of the tribe of Gad living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.5.14;

son of: Michael (H4317I);

father of: Jaroah (H3386)

§ 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

4) son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh

5) father of Jephthah

6) a Gadite

Gilead = "rocky region"

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

Gilead = "rocky region"

2) a city (with prefix 'Jabesh')

Combined with ya.vesh (יָבֵשׁ "Jabesh" H3003)

Gilead = "rocky region"

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'.

Combined with ra.mot gi.l.ad (רָמֹת "Ramoth" H7433)

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: Gilead

גִּלְעָד n.pr.loc territory S. of Jabboḳ Northern Gilead more generally, of all Gilead name of a city of Israelites living E. of Jordan (as a whole) n.pr.m treated as. . of mountain-range or hill-country, land & city, E. of Jordan