Gibʻôwn — H1391

H1391 · Hebrew — גבעון

Pronunciation: ghib-ohn'

Definition

locative proper noun

Gibon, a place in Palestine

  1. Gibeon = "hill city"
  2. a Levitical city of Benjamin, modern 'el-Jib', which lies 5 miles or 8 km from Jerusalem

Usually translated as

Gibeon

Origin

from the same as H1387; hilly

Occurrences

Gibʻôwn occurs 37 times in 35 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (13), 2 Samuel (6), 1 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (2), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (3)

Strong's Lexicon — G