Gilead
Gilead was the father of Jephthah, a mighty warrior and judge of Israel who delivered the Israelites from the Ammonites.
The name Gilead means “the heap or mass of testimony”
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Summary
A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Judges 11:1; only referred to as Gilead (גִּלְעָד); father of Jephthah.
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Alternative names
- גִּלְעָדGilead
Mentions
- Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
- And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”