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Strong's H1390 גִּבְעָה (gibah)

Gibah means “Gibeah” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1390 — doma (“gift”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1390
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 44
Books 8

Strong's H1390 Quick Answer

Strong's H1390 גִּבעָה (Gib`ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Gib`ah (ghib-aw') n/l. 1. Gibah 2. the name of three places in Israel It has 44 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include gibeah, israel, places, three, and name. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Gib`ah (ghib-aw') n/l. 1. Gibah 2. the name of three places in Israel
Usage
44 linked usages
Books
8 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
gibeah, israel, places, three, and name

Meaning and Definition

Gib`ah (ghib-aw') n/l. 1. Gibah 2. the name of three places in Israel [the same as H1389] KJV: Gibeah, the hill. Root(s): H1389

Original Word
גִּבעָה
Transliteration
Gib`ah
Derivation
Root: גבע First root strongs: 1389
Morphology
Name/l.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1390. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1390 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Gib`ah, 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.

Gibeah Joshua 15:57 28× Israel Judges 19:12 12× places Judges 19:13 name 2 Chronicles 13:2 three 1 Samuel 13:2

How Strong's H1390 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 44 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1390 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1390 in the Old Testament

44 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Joshua 15:57 KJV

Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:

Judges 19:12 KJV

And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

Judges 19:13 KJV

And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

Usage Excerpts

First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1390.

Joshua 15:57 Old Testament, KJV
Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
Judges 19:12 Old Testament, KJV
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
Judges 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Judges 19:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
Judges 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Judges 20:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
Judges 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
Judges 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
Judges 20:13 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
Judges 20:14 Old Testament, KJV
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges 20:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges 20:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Judges 20:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
Judges 20:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
Judges 20:30 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20:31 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20:33 Old Testament, KJV
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Judges 20:34 Old Testament, KJV
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
Judges 20:36 Old Testament, KJV
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
Judges 20:37 Old Testament, KJV
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
Judges 20:43 Old Testament, KJV
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
1 Samuel 10:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel 11:4 Old Testament, KJV
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
1 Samuel 13:2 Old Testament, KJV
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1 Samuel 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 14:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1 Samuel 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
1 Samuel 15:34 Old Testament, KJV
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
1 Samuel 22:6 Old Testament, KJV
When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
1 Samuel 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
1 Samuel 26:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
2 Samuel 6:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
2 Samuel 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
2 Samuel 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
2 Samuel 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
1 Chronicles 11:31 Old Testament, KJV
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
2 Chronicles 13:2 Old Testament, KJV
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
Isaiah 10:29 Old Testament, KJV
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Hosea 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
Hosea 9:9 Old Testament, KJV
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Hosea 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1390, grouped by book.

Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 23 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 10 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H1390 FAQ

What does gibah (גִּבְעָה) mean?

Gibah (Strong's H1390) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Gibeah". Gib`ah (ghib-aw') n/l. 1. Gibah 2. the name of three places in Israel

How many times is gibah (גִּבְעָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's H1390 across 8 books.

Where can I study gibah (גִּבְעָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1390 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate gibah (גִּבְעָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gibeah, israel, places, three, and name. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.