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Strong's #1533: Gilboa` (pronounced ghil-bo'-ah)

from 1530 and 1158; fountain of ebullition; Gilboa, a mountain of Palestine:--Gilboa.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gilbôa‛

Gilboa = "swollen heap"

1) a mountain-ridge at the southeastern end of the plain of Jezreel, site of the death of Saul and Jonathan

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H1530 and H1158



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

1 Samuel 28:4: "and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa."
1 Samuel 31:1: "the Philistines, slain in mount Gilboa."
1 Samuel 31:8: "and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa."
2 Samuel 1:6: "As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, leaned upon"
2 Samuel 1:21: "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields"
2 Samuel 21:12: "the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:"
1 Chronicles 10:1: "the Philistines, slain in mount Gilboa."
1 Chronicles 10:8: "and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa."









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