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title: גִּבְעוֹן — Gibeon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּבְעוֹן (1391), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 37 times: Gibeon. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּבְעוֹן

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«גִּבְעוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gibeon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 37 times · **Key:** 1391 · **BDB:** גִּבְעוֹן

### Glosses

Gibeon (24); of.Gibeon (10); to (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gibeon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1391/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1391/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.—ג׳ Jos 9:17 +; c. ָה loc., גִּבְע֫וֹנָה 2 S 12 cf. 1 K 3:4;—Levitical city in tribe of Benjamin; formerly inhabited by Hivites Jos 9:17; 10:2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 41; 11:19; 18:25; 21:17 2 S 2:12, 13 (pool of Gibeon) v 16; 3:30; 20:8 Je 28:1; 41:12 (great waters which are in Gibeon) v 16 1 Ch 14:16; vid. especially יוֹשְׁבֵי ג׳, אַנְשֵׁי ג׳ Jos 9:3 (called Hivites 9:7) 10:1, 6; 11:19 Ne 3:7, so בְּנֵי ג׳ Ne 7:25 (= בְּנֵי גִבָּר Ezr 2:20, v. גִּבָּר); cf. also as n.pr.m. 1 Ch 8:29 וּבְגִבְעוֹן יָֽשְׁבוּ אֲבִי גִבְעוֹן = 9:35; cf. מִדְבַּר ג׳ 2 S 2:24, עֵמֶק בְּג׳ Is 28:21; it was the site of a great Bamah 1 K 3:4, 5; 9:2, where was ‘the tabernacle of Yahweh in the high place’ according to 1 Ch 16:39, cf. 21:29 2 Ch 1:3, 13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 34 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּבְעוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1391/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 7:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.25/)

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בְּנֵ֥י גִבְע֖וֹןתִּשְׁעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Gibeon ninety and five

*JPS 1917:* The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

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[Joshua 18:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.25/)

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גִּבְע֥וֹן וְהָֽרָמָ֖ה וּבְאֵרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* Gibeon and (the) Ramah and Beeroth

*JPS 1917:* Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth;

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