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:
Song of Solomon 4:1: "is as a flock of goats, from mount Gilead."
Song of Solomon 6:5: "me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead."
Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then"
Jeremiah 22:6: "house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon:"
Jeremiah 46:11: "Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain"
Jeremiah 50:19: "shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead."
Ezekiel 47:18: "Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from"
Hosea 6:8: " Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood."
Hosea 12:11: "Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;"
Amos 1:3: "the punishment thereof; because Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:"
Amos 1:13: "they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:"
Obadiah 1:19: "of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead."
Micah 7:14: "of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old."
Zechariah 10:10: "them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not"
