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# גִּלֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1542

**Giloh** — used 2 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

Giloh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1542/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּלֹה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1542/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in mountains of Judah Jos 15:51 2 S 15:12; (on √ cf. Dr 2 S 15:12.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/#tree)

וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Goshen and Holon and Giloh cities one.plus ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

[2 Samuel 15:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.12/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח אַ֠בְשָׁלוֹם אֶת־אֲחִיתֹ֨פֶל הַגִּֽילֹנִ֜י יוֹעֵ֣ץ דָּוִ֗ד מֵֽעִירוֹ֙ מִגִּלֹ֔ה בְּזָבְח֖וֹ אֶת־הַזְּבָחִ֑ים וַיְהִ֤י הַקֶּ֙שֶׁר֙ אַמִּ֔ץ וְהָעָ֛ם הוֹלֵ֥ךְ וָרָ֖ב אֶת־אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Absalom (et) Ahithophel the Gilonite the.counselor of.David from city his from Giloh when sacrificed he (et) the sacrifices and it.was the conspiracy strong and the people \[was\].going and numerous with Absalom

*JPS 1917:* And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1542.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1542/): 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).