Strong's #1568: Gil`ad (pronounced ghil-awd')
probably from 1567; Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites:--Gilead, Gileadite.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gil‛âd
Gilead = "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; sometimes called ' Mount Gilead' or the ' land of Gilead' or just ' Gilead' . Divided into north and south Gilead (noun proper locative)
2) a city (with prefix ' Jabesh' ) (noun proper locative)
3) the people of the region (noun proper locative)
4) son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh (noun proper masculine)
5) father of Jephthah (noun proper masculine)
6) a Gadite (noun proper masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: probably from H1567
Usage:
This word is used 114 times:
Judges 11:8: "our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:9: "said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again"
Judges 11:10: "And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness"
Judges 11:11: "went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain"
Judges 11:29: "Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh"
Judges 11:29: "and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over"
Judges 11:29: "Mizpeh and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon."
Judges 12:4: "all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men"
Judges 12:4: "with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because"
Judges 12:4: "because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites,"
Judges 12:5: " And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when"
Judges 12:5: "said, Let me go over; of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said,"
Judges 12:7: "the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead."
Judges 20:1: "from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh."
Judges 21:8: "And, behold, there came to the camp from Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:9: "and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead of Jabesh-gilead there."
Judges 21:10: "and commanded them, saying, Go and smite of Jabesh-gilead of Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:12: "And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young"
Judges 21:14: "which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed"
1 Samuel 11:1: "came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh"
1 Samuel 11:9: "Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by that time the sun be hot,"
1 Samuel 13:7: "Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all"
1 Samuel 31:11: "And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines"
2 Samuel 2:4: "saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried"
2 Samuel 2:5: "messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed"
2 Samuel 2:9: "And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over"
2 Samuel 17:26: "and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead."
2 Samuel 21:12: "his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, of Jabesh-gilead, had stolen"
2 Samuel 24:6: "Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about"
1 Kings 4:13: "the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan,"
1 Kings 4:19: "the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites,"
1 Kings 17:1: "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab,"
2 Kings 10:33: "eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites,"
2 Kings 10:33: "from Aroer, which the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan."
2 Kings 15:29: "and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali,"
1 Chronicles 2:21: "the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore"
1 Chronicles 2:22: "and twenty cities in the land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 2:23: "these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 5:9: "their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 5:10: "in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 5:14: "the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son"
1 Chronicles 5:16: "And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon"
1 Chronicles 6:80: "And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,"
1 Chronicles 7:14: "Machir the father of Gilead:"
1 Chronicles 7:17: "Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh."
1 Chronicles 10:11: "And when all Jabesh-gilead Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines"
1 Chronicles 26:31: "of valor at Jazer of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 27:21: "Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel"
Psalms 60:7: " Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
Psalms 108:8: " Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"
