גִּלְעָד

gil.adGilead
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place134 occurrences20 books123 verses
This name belongs to 5 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Gilead: Descendant of Manasseh; son of Michael; father of Jaroah
  • Gilead: Father of Jephthah, a judge of Israel
  • Gilead: Son of Machir; grandson of Manasseh; father of six sons
  • Mount Gilboa: A mountain range where Saul and his sons died
  • Gilead: Mountainous region east of Jordan; tribal territory and personal name

Definition

probably from H1567; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
Traditional renderings: Gilead, Gileadite.

Glossary entries

Gilead (Place) Mount Gilboa Gilead (Person) Gileadite

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

134 total
  1. Judges 11:8גִלְעָֽד׃ · in Gilead
    They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
  2. Judges 11:9גִלְעָ֗ד
    But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
  3. Judges 11:10גִלְעָ֖ד · of Gilead
    And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
  4. Judges 11:11גִלְעָ֔ד · of Gilead
    So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
  5. Judges 11:29 (3×)הַגִּלְעָ֖ד · Gilead; גִלְעָ֔ד · of Gilead; גִלְעָ֔ד
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
  6. Judges 12:4 (3×)גִלְעָ֔ד · of Gilead; גִלְעָ֜ד · of Gilead; גִּלְעָ֕ד · Gileadites
    Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”
  7. Judges 12:5 (2×)גִּלְעָ֛ד · The Gileadites; גִלְעָ֛ד · the Gileadites
    The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”
  8. Judges 12:7גִלְעָֽד׃פ · of Gilead
    Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
  9. Judges 20:1הַגִּלְעָ֑ד · of Gilead
    Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
  10. Judges 21:8גִּלְעָ֖ד
    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
  11. Judges 21:9גִּלְעָֽד׃
    For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
  12. Judges 21:10גִּלְעָד֙
    So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
  13. Judges 21:12גִּלְעָ֗ד
    So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
  14. Judges 21:14גִּלְעָ֑ד
    And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
  15. 1 Samuel 11:1גִּלְעָ֑ד
    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
  16. 1 Samuel 11:9גִּלְעָ֔ד
    So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.
  17. 1 Samuel 13:7וְגִלְעָ֑ד · and Gilead
    Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, remained at Gilgal, and all his troops were quaking in fear.
  18. 1 Samuel 31:11גִּלְעָ֑ד
    When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
  19. 2 Samuel 2:4גִּלְעָ֔ד
    Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
  20. 2 Samuel 2:5גִּלְעָ֑ד
    So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead to tell them, “The LORD bless you, because you showed this kindness to Saul your lord when you buried him.
  21. 2 Samuel 2:9הַגִּלְעָ֔ד · Gilead
    …and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
  22. 2 Samuel 17:26הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ס · of Gilead
    So the Israelites and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.
  23. 2 Samuel 21:12גִּלְעָ֑ד
    …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.
  24. 2 Samuel 24:6הַגִּלְעָ֔דָה · to Gilead
    Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.
  25. 1 Kings 4:13 (2×)גִּלְעָ֑ד · in Gilead; בַּגִּלְעָ֗ד
    Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
  26. 1 Kings 4:19גִּלְעָ֑ד · of Gilead
    Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
  27. 1 Kings 17:1גִלְעָד֮ · of Gilead
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  28. 1 Kings 22:3גִּלְעָ֑ד
    …who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”
  29. 1 Kings 22:4גִּלְעָ֑ד
    So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
  30. 1 Kings 22:6גִּלְעָ֛ד
    So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  31. 1 Kings 22:12גִּלְעָד֙
    And all the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  32. 1 Kings 22:15גִּלְעָ֛ד
    When Micaiah arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up and triumph,” Micaiah replied, “for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  33. 1 Kings 22:20גִּלְעָ֑ד
    And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.
  34. 1 Kings 22:29גִּלְעָֽד׃
    So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
  35. 2 Kings 8:28גִּלְעָ֑ד
    Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
  36. 2 Kings 9:1גִּלְעָֽד׃
    Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak under your belt, take this flask of oil, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
  37. 2 Kings 9:4גִּלְעָֽד׃
    So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead,
  38. 2 Kings 9:14גִּלְעָ֗ד
    Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
  39. 2 Kings 10:33 (2×)הַגִּלְעָ֔ד · of Gilead; וְהַגִּלְעָ֖ד · through Gilead
    …from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.
  40. 2 Kings 15:29הַגִּלְעָד֙ · Gilead
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
  41. 1 Chronicles 2:21גִלְעָ֔ד · of Gilead
    Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.
  42. 1 Chronicles 2:22הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ · of Gilead
    Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
  43. 1 Chronicles 2:23גִלְעָֽד׃ · of Gilead
    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.