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Strong's #1569: Gil`adiy (pronounced ghil-aw-dee')

patronymically from 1568; a Giladite or descendant of Gilad:--Gileadite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gil‛âdı̂y

Gileadite = "rocky region"

1) an inhabitant of Gilead

2) a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, descended of Gilead

3) of Jephthah as the son of Gilead

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: patronymically from H1568



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Numbers 26:29: "Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites."
Judges 10:3: "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty"
Judges 11:1: "Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot:"
Judges 11:40: "yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days"
Judges 12:7: "years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities"
2 Samuel 17:27: "of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,"
2 Samuel 19:31: "And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with"
1 Kings 2:7: "kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for"
2 Kings 15:25: "and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned"
Ezra 2:61: "took a wife of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after"
Nehemiah 7:63: "took one of the daughters the Gileadite to wife, and was called after"









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