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title: גִּבְּתוֹן — Gibbethon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּבְּתוֹן (1405), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Gibbethon. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּבְּתוֹן

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«גִּבְּתוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gibbethon** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 1405 · **BDB:** גִּבְּתוֹן

### Glosses

Gibbethon (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gibbethon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1405/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1405/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (mound, height, cf. 𝔗 גִּבְבָא ridge) Philistine city 1 K 15:27(×2); 16:15, 17; assigned to Dan Jos 19:44, and to Levites 21:23: site unknown; cf. LagOnom. 246, 2nd ed. 255.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּבְּתוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1405/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 19:44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.44/)

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וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה וְגִבְּת֖וֹן וּבַעֲלָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

*JPS 1917:* and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath;

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[1 Kings 16:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.17/)

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וַיַּעֲלֶ֥ה עָמְרִ֛י וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל עִמּ֖וֹ מִֽגִּבְּת֑וֹן וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ עַל־תִּרְצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Omri and all Israel with him from Gibbethon and they.laid.siege on Tirzah

*JPS 1917:* And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

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