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# גִּדְעוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1439

**Gideon** — used 39 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

Gideon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1439/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּדְעוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1439/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. judge of Israel Ju 6:11, 13, 19 + 36 times Ju 6–8;—called also יְרֻבַּעַל (q.v.) Ju 6:32; 7:1 etc., & יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת (q.v.) 2 S 11:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: Gideon (36); of Gideon (2); \[is\] Gideon (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 8:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.13/#tree)

וַיָּ֛שָׁב גִּדְע֥וֹן בֶּן־יוֹאָ֖שׁ מִן־הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה מִֽלְמַעֲלֵ֖ה הֶחָֽרֶס׃

*Word for word:* and he.returned Gideon the.son of.Joash from the battle from to the.ascent of.(the) Heres

*JPS 1917:* And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

[Judges 8:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.30/#tree)

וּלְגִדְע֗וֹן הָיוּ֙ שִׁבְעִ֣ים בָּנִ֔ים יֹצְאֵ֖י יְרֵכ֑וֹ כִּֽי־נָשִׁ֥ים רַבּ֖וֹת הָ֥יוּ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and to Gideon they.belonged seventy sons \[who\].came.out his.thigh his (dm) wives many they.belonged to him

*JPS 1917:* And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1439/): 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).