Geber
Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the
country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of
Bashan; and [he was] the only officer which [was] in the land....
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The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the
towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to
him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in
Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:...
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ge'-ber (gebher, "man," "strong one"):
(1) According to 1 Ki 4:13 the King James Version the father
of one of the 12 officers who provided food for Solomon and
his household (but here the Revised Version (British and
American) "Ben-geber"). His district lay to the Northeast of
Jordan.
(2) Another, and the last in the list of Solomon's
commissa...
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-Name of two men, officers of Solomon
1Ki 4:13,19...
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(manly).
1. The son of Geber resided in the fortress of Ramoth-
gilead, and had charge of Havoth-jair and the district of
Argob. 1Ki 4:13 (B.C. 1013).
2. Geber the son of Uri had a district south of the
former --the "land of Gilead." 1Ki 4:19...
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a valiant man, (1 Kings 4:19), one of Solomon's purveyors,
having jurisdiction over a part of Gilead, comprising
all the
kingdom of Sihon and part of the kingdom of Og (Deut.
2; 31)....
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1. 1 Kings 4:13.
2. 1 Kings 4:19. Having as his commissariat district
the part of Gilead forming Sihon's and Og's kingdom, now
Belka, the great pasture E. of Jordan. Translated not "he was
the only officer in the land," for there were two others (1
Kings 4:13-14), but "and one (superior) officer (netsitb
'achad) who was in the land," namely,...
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