גִּבְעוֹן

giv.onGibeon
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place37 occurrences8 books35 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Abiel: Father of Kish and grandfather of King Saul
  • Gibeon: Hivite city that tricked Joshua into a peace treaty

Definition

from the same as H1387; hilly; Gibon, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Gibeon.

Glossary entries

Gibeon, Gibeonites Ner Abiel Geba Gibbar Jeiel

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

37 total
  1. Joshua 9:3גִבְע֜וֹן · of Gibeon
    But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
  2. Joshua 9:17גִּבְע֣וֹן · Gibeon
    So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
  3. Joshua 10:1גִבְעוֹן֙ · of Gibeon
    Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
  4. Joshua 10:2גִּבְע֔וֹן · Gibeon
    So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
  5. Joshua 10:4גִּבְע֑וֹן · Gibeon
    “Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
  6. Joshua 10:5גִּבְע֔וֹן · Gibeon
    So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
  7. Joshua 10:6גִבְע֨וֹן · of Gibeon
    Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
  8. Joshua 10:10בְּגִבְע֑וֹן · at Gibeon
    And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
  9. Joshua 10:12בְּגִבְע֣וֹן · over Gibeon
    On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
  10. Joshua 10:41גִּבְעֽוֹן׃ · Gibeon
    Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.
  11. Joshua 11:19גִבְע֑וֹן · in Gibeon
    No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
  12. Joshua 18:25גִּבְע֥וֹן · Gibeon
    Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
  13. Joshua 21:17גִּבְע֖וֹן · Gibeon
    And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
  14. 2 Samuel 2:12גִּבְעֽוֹנָה׃ · to Gibeon
    One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
  15. 2 Samuel 2:13גִּבְע֖וֹן · of Gibeon
    So Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
  16. 2 Samuel 2:16בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ · is in Gibeon
    Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.
  17. 2 Samuel 2:24גִּבְעֽוֹן׃ · of Gibeon
    But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
  18. 2 Samuel 3:30בְּגִבְע֖וֹן · at Gibeon
    (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
  19. 2 Samuel 20:8בְּגִבְע֔וֹן · in Gibeon
    And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
  20. 1 Kings 3:4גִּבְעֹ֙נָה֙ · to Gibeon
    Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
  21. 1 Kings 3:5בְּגִבְע֗וֹן · at Gibeon
    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
  22. 1 Kings 9:2בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ · at Gibeon
    …the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
  23. 1 Chronicles 8:29 (2×)וּבְגִבְע֥וֹן · of Gibeon; גִבְע֑וֹן · in Gibeon
    Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,
  24. 1 Chronicles 9:35 (2×)וּבְגִבְע֛וֹן · of Gibeon; גִבְע֖וֹן · in Gibeon
    Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah.
  25. 1 Chronicles 14:16מִגִּבְע֖וֹן · from Gibeon
    So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
  26. 1 Chronicles 16:39בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ · in Gibeon
    And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
  27. 1 Chronicles 21:29בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ · in Gibeon
    For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
  28. 2 Chronicles 1:3בְּגִבְע֑וֹן · at Gibeon
    And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
  29. 2 Chronicles 1:13בְּגִבְעוֹן֙ · in Gibeon
    So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
  30. Nehemiah 3:7גִבְע֖וֹן · of Gibeon
    Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.
  31. Nehemiah 7:25גִבְע֖וֹן · of Gibeon
    …the descendants of Gibeon, 95;
  32. Isaiah 28:21בְּגִבְע֣וֹן · of Gibeon
    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
  33. Jeremiah 28:1מִגִּבְעוֹן֙ · who was from Gibeon
    In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
  34. Jeremiah 41:12בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ · in Gibeon
    …they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.
  35. Jeremiah 41:16מִגִּבְעֽוֹן׃ · from Gibeon
    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.