Gilead
gil'-e-ad (ha-gil`adh, "the Gilead"): The name is explained
in Gen 31:46 ff,51, as derived from Hebrew gal, "a cairn,"
and `edh, "witness," agreeing in meaning with the Aramaic
yegharsahadhutha'. The Arabic jilead means "rough,"
"rugged."
(1) A city named in Hos 6:8; 12:11, possibly to be
identified with Gilead near to Mizpah (Jdg 10:17)...
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1. A region east of the Jordan River allotted to the tribes
of
Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh
Nu 32:1-30; De 3:13; 34:1; 2Ki 10:33
Reubenites expel the Hagarites from
1Ch 5:9,10,18-22
Ammonites make war against; defeated by Jephthah
Jud 11
The prophet Elijah a native of
1Ki 17:1
David retreats to, at the time of Absalom's r...
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(rocky region).
1. A mountainous region bounded on the west by the
Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian
plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon. Ge 31:21; De
3:12-17 It is sometimes called "Mount Gilead," Ge 31:25
sometimes "the land of Gilead," Nu 32:1 and sometimes simply
"Gilead." Ps 60:7; Ge 37:25 The name Gilead...
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hill of testimony, (Gen. 31:21), a mountainous region east
of
Jordan. From its mountainous character it is called
"the mount
of Gilead" (Gen. 31:25). It is called also "the land
of Gilead"
(Num. 32:1), and sometimes simply "Gilead" (Ps.
60:7; Gen.
37:25). It comprised the possessions of the tribes
of Gad and
Reuben and the south part of M...
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("a hard rocky region".) The mountainous range and the
region E. of Jordan are meant by "mount Gilead," not some
one mountain. Bashan ("soft level soil"), a fertile plateau,
bounds it on the N.; the Arabian table land on the E.; Moab
and Ammon on the S. (Deuteronomy 3:12-17); Jordan on the W.;
Hieromax river (now Sheriat'el Mandhur) divides it...
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Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead....
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Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of
Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a
place for cattle;...
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And the chief fathers of the families of the children of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the
families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before
Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the
children of Israel:...
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Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair;
thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a
flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead....
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