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גֶּבַע

Gebaʻ · H1387 · Hebrew · proper noun · 19 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 places

Meanings

  1. Geba

    A town in the territory of Benjamin, possibly identified with Gibeah, given to the Levites and the hometown of King Saul

    Examples

    Joshua 18:24 Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

    Joshua 21:17 From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

    Judges 20:10 “And we will take ten men out of a hundred throughout the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to supply provisions for the people, so that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may punish them for all the vile sin that they have committed in Israel.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 5 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
גֶּבַע names the town of Geba in Benjamin, listed among the Levitical cities in Joshua 21:17 and referenced in the account of Judges 20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1387. Geba גֶּ֫בַע proper name, of a location — ׳ג absolute Jos 21:17 +; construct Jdg…
H1387. Geba
גֶּ֫בַע proper name, of a location — ׳ג absolute Jos 21:17 +; construct Jdg 20:10 +; גָּ֑בַע Jos 18:24 +; — Levitical city, in Benjamin Jos 21:17 = 1Ch 6:45; Jos 18:24 compare 1Ch 8:6; 1Ki 15:22; Neh 11:31; also 1Sa 13:16 & Jdg 20:10, Jdg 20:33 ᵑ0, in all three read גִּבְעָה (גִּבְעַת), compare context; — northernmost city in kingdom of Judah 2Ki 23:8 from Geba to Beersheba, compare Zec 14:10; situated south of pass of Michmash Isa 10:29; 1Sa 14:5 compare 1Sa 13:3; mentioned also 2Ch 16:6; Ezr 2:26; Neh 7:30; Neh 12:29; in 1Sa 13:18 ᵐ5 We Dr read הַגֶּבַע for גְּבוּל ᵑ0 q. v.; (2Sa 5:25 read גבעון with ᵐ5 and 1Ch 14:16). — Modern Jeba` RobBR i. 440 f. BdPal 120.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Locations19 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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