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# גִּלְבֹּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1533

**Gilboa** — used 8 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

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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.

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gilboa (6); of Gilboa (2).

## In the verses

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

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.

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

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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1533.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1533/): 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).