Gibʻônîy — H1393

Definition

adjective

a Gibonite, or inhabitant of Gibon

1. Gibeonite = "little hill: hilly"
2. an inhabitant of Gibeon

Usually translated as

Gibeonite

Origin

patrial from H1391

• Derived from Gibʻôwn (H1391)

Occurrences

Gibʻônîy occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (5), 1 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1)

• 2 Samuel 21:1 — Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites (הַגִּבְעֹנִֽים).
• 2 Samuel 21:2 — And the king called the Gibeonites (לַגִּבְעֹנִ֖ים), and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
• 2 Samuel 21:2 — And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites (וְהַגִּבְעֹנִ֞ים) were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
• 2 Samuel 21:3 — Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites (הַגִּבְעֹנִ֔ים), What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
• 2 Samuel 21:4 — And the Gibeonites (הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗ים) said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
• 2 Samuel 21:9 — And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites (הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗ים), and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
• 1 Chronicles 12:4 — And Ismaiah the Gibeonite (הַגִּבְעוֹנִ֛י), a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
• Nehemiah 3:7 — And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite (הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗י), and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.