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# גִּבְּתוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1405

**Gibbethon** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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.

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gibbethon (6).

## In the verses

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

וְאֶלְתְּקֵ֥ה וְגִבְּת֖וֹן וּבַעֲלָֽת׃

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

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

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

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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1405/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).