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title: גִּלְבֹּעַ — Gilboa · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּלְבֹּעַ (1533), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Gilboa. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Gilboaʿ. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּלְבֹּעַ

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«גִּלְבֹּעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gilboa** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 1533 · **BDB:** גִּלְבֹּעַ

### Glosses

Gilboa (6); of.Gilboa (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gilboa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1533/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Gilboaʿ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1533/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Gilboaʿ (derivation unknown), mountain-ridge at S.E. end of plain of Jezreel, where Saul \& Jonathan were killed; usually c. art. הַר הַגּ׳ 1 S 31:1, 8 2 S 1:6; הָרֵי בַּגִּלְבֹּעַ 2 S 1:21 (David’s lament); בַּגּ׳ alone 1 S 28:4 2 S 21:12; without art. הַר גִּלְבֹּעַ 1 Ch 10:1, 8 (‖ 1 S 31:1, 8 supr.);—mod. Jebel Fuḳûʿa BdPal. 244.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 «גִּלְבֹּעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1533/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.1/)

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וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים נִלְחֲמ֣וּ בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּ֑נָס אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיִּפְּל֥וּ חֲלָלִ֖ים בְּהַ֥ר גִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] Philistines they.fought against Israel and he.fled the.man of.Israel from before \[the\].Philistines and they.fell slain on the.mountain of.Gilboa

*JPS 1917:* Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

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[1 Samuel 31:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.31.1/)

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וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים נִלְחָמִ֣ים בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּנֻ֜סוּ אַנְשֵׁ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיִּפְּל֥וּ חֲלָלִ֖ים בְּהַ֥ר הַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] Philistines \[were\].fighting against Israel and they.fled the.men of.Israel from before \[the\].Philistines and they.fell slain on the.mountain of.(the) Gilboa

*JPS 1917:* Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

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