Strong H1390H1390Hגִּבְעָה

Definition

Meaning of the name

General definition

In the biblical story

In the Bible

Strong H1390H appears in 39 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

• gibeah38
• part1

First verses

1. Judges 19:12
   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.
2. Judges 19:13
   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.
3. Judges 19:14
   And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
4. Judges 19:15
   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.
5. Judges 19:16
   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.
6. Judges 20:4
   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.
7. Judges 20:5
   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.
8. Judges 20:9
   But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
9. Judges 20:13
   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:
10. Judges 20:14
    But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
11. Judges 20:15
    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.
12. Judges 20:19
    And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
13. Judges 20:20
    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.
14. Judges 20:21
    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.
15. Judges 20:25
    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.
16. Judges 20:29
    And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
17. Judges 20:30
    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.
18. Judges 20:31
    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.
19. Judges 20:34
    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.
20. Judges 20:36
    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.

Occurrences by book

• Judges22
• 1 Samuel10
• 2 Samuel2
• 1 Chronicles1
• Isaiah1
• Hosea3

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