Geba` - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1387 — dolioo (“use deceit”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1387 גֶּבַע (Geba`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Geba` (gheh'-bah) n/l. 1. Geba, a place in Israel [from the same as H1375, a hillock] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include geba, gaba, gibeah, and israel. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Geba` (gheh'-bah) n/l. 1. Geba, a place in Israel [from the same as H1375, a hillock] KJV: Gaba, Geba, Gibeah. Root(s): H1375
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Geba
Usage: § Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill" a city in Benjamin, modern 'Jeba', which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern 'Mukhmas'
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Geba`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1387.
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:
Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1387, grouped by book.
Geba (Strong's H1387) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Geba". Geba` (gheh'-bah) n/l. 1. Geba, a place in Israel [from the same as H1375, a hillock]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H1387 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1387 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as geba, gaba, gibeah, and israel. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.