This name belongs to 2 different places in the Bible:
- Gilboa: A mountain range where Saul and his sons died
- Mount Gilboa: A mountain range where Saul and his sons died
Definition
from H1530 and H1158; fountain of ebullition; Gilboa, a mountain of Palestine
Traditional renderings: Gilboa.
Traditional renderings: Gilboa.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
8 total
- 1 Samuel 28:4בַּגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · at GilboaThe Philistines gathered together and camped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 31:1הַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · GilboaNow the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 31:8הַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · GilboaThe next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:6הַגִּלְבֹּ֔עַ · Gilboa“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
- 2 Samuel 1:21בַגִּלְבֹּ֗עַ · of GilboaO mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 21:12בַּגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · at Gilboa…he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:1גִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · GilboaNow the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:8גִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃ · GilboaThe next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.