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Gilboa

MOUNT, a ridge of mountains on the north of Bethshan, or Scythopolis, forming in that part the boundary of the plain of Jordan to the west. It is memorable from the defeat of Saul by the Philistines; Gilboa is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “revolution of inquiry.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H1533
Hebrew
גִּלְבֹּעַ · Gilbôaʻ
Name meaning
revolution of inquiry According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

גִּלְבֹּעַ

H1533
Transliteration
Gilbôaʻ
Pronunciation
ghil-bo'-ah
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
8

Glosses

Gilboa.

Lexicon definition

Gilboa, a mountain of Palestine

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gilboa

revolution of inquiry

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

GILBOA

MOUNT, a ridge of mountains on the north of Bethshan, or Scythopolis, forming in that part the boundary of the plain of Jordan to the west. It is memorable from the defeat of Saul by the Philistines; when his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand, his armourbearer refusing to kill him, 1 Sam. xxxi.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Gilboa

Indexed occurrences: 8

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All Scripture references9 references

1 Samuel 3

1 Samuel 28:41 Samuel 31:11 Samuel 31:8

2 Samuel 3

2 Samuel 1:62 Samuel 1:212 Samuel 21:12

2 Kings 1

2 Kings 9:21

1 Chronicles 2

1 Chronicles 10:11 Chronicles 10:8

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

GILBOA

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for GILBOA.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:
1 Chronicles 10:1

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gilboa

Meaning:
revolution of inquiry

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Ancient Context1 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Saul Upon God's Not Answering Him Concerning The Fight With The Philistines Desired A Necromantic Woman To Raise Up The Soul Of Samuel To Him; And How He Died, With His Sons Upon The Overthrow Of The Hebrews In Battle.

Antiquities Book 6, Chapter 14

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Topic

GILBOA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for GILBOA.

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Gilboa

revolution of inquiry

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Ish-bosheth

Man of shame or humiliation, the youngest of Saul's four sons, and the only one who survived him (2 Sam. 2-4). His name was originally Eshbaal (1 Chr. 8:33; 9:39). He was about forty years of age when his father and three brothers fell at the battle of Gilboa. Through the influence of Abner, Saul's cousin, he was acknowledged as successor to the throne of Saul, and ruled over all Israel, except the tribe of Judah (over whom David was king), for two years, having Mahanaim, on the east of Jordan, as his capital (2 Sam. 2:9). After a troubled and uncertain reign he was murdered by his guard, who stabbed him while he was asleep on his couch at mid-day (2 Sam. 4:5-7); and having cut off his head, presented it to David, who sternly rebuked them for this cold-blooded murder, and ordered them to be immediately executed (9-12).

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Jezreel, Fountain of

Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, "flows from under a sort of cavern in the wall of conglomerate rock which here forms the base of Gilboa. The water is excellent; and issuing from crevices in the rocks, it spreads out at once into a fine limpid pool forty or fifty feet in diameter, full of fish" (Robinson). This may be identical with the "well of Harod" (Judg. 7:1; comp. 2 Sam. 23:25), probably the Ain Jalud, i.e., the "spring of Goliath."

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Jezreel, Valley of

Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal victory gained by the Israelites under Gideon over the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the "children of the east" (Judg. 6:3). Two centuries after this the Israelites were here defeated by the Philistines, and Saul and Jonathan, with the flower of the army of Israel, fell (1 Sam. 31:1-6). This name was in after ages extended to the whole of the plain of Esdraelon (q.v.). It was only this plain of Jezreel and that north of Lake Huleh that were then accessible to the chariots of the Canaanites (comp. 2 Kings 9:21; 10:15).

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Malchi-shua

King of help, one of the four sons of Saul (1 Chr. 8:33). He perished along with his father in the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 31:2).

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Moreh, the Hill of

Probably identical with "little Hermon," the modern Jebel ed-Duhy, or perhaps one of the lower spurs of this mountain. It is a gray ridge parallel to Gilboa on the north; and between the two lay the battle-field, the plain of Jezreel (q.v.), where Gideon overthrew the Midianites (Judg. 7:1-12).

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