Strong H1533H1533Gגִּלְבֹּעַ
Gilboa
One of the 2 senses of Strong H1533
- Transliteration
- gilbôa‛
- Pronunciation
- gil-bo'-ah
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Mount Gilboa was the site of a battle where Saul and his sons were killed by the Philistines (1 Samuel 28:4; 2 Samuel 1:21; 21:12).
Meaning of the name
Gilboa = "swollen heap"
General definition
In the biblical story
Gilboa
A mountain range where Saul and his sons died.
Mount Gilboa was the site of a battle where Saul and his sons were killed by the Philistines (1 Samuel 28:4; 2 Samuel 1:21; 21:12).
In the Bible
Strong H1533G appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- gilboa3
First verses
- 1 Samuel 28:4And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: