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Gabbatha

A place in Pilate’s palace, from whence he pronounced sentence of death upon Jesus Christ, John xix, 13. This was probably an eminence, or terrace, paved with marble, for the Hebrew means _elevated_. Gabbatha is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “high; elevated.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G1042
Greek
γαββαθά · gabbatha
Name meaning
high; elevated According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

γαββαθά

G1042
Transliteration
gabbatha
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N--L
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Gabbatha

Lexicon definition

Γαββαθα (Rec. -θᾶ), ἡ, indecl., Gabbatha, the Greek transliteration of an uncertain Aramaic word (DB, see word; Dalman, Words, 7), used as the equivalent of λιθόστρωτον, stone pavement: Jhn.19:13.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

γαββαθά

G1042
Transliteration
gabbathá
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Gabbatha

Lexicon definition

the knoll

gabbatha, a vernacular term for the Roman tribunal in Jerusalem

Hebrew lexical coverage

No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gabbatha

high; elevated

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

GABBATHA

a place in Pilate’s palace, from whence he pronounced sentence of death upon Jesus Christ, John xix, 13. This was probably an eminence, or terrace, paved with marble, for the Hebrew means _elevated_.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Gabbatha

Indexed occurrences: 1

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All Scripture references1 references

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

GABBATHA

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for GABBATHA.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gabbatha

Meaning:
high; elevated

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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