1. Gibeon (place name) — A major Canaanite city that became a Levitical city in the territory of Benjamin, identified with modern el-Jib northwest of Jerusalem. Prominently featured in Joshua 9:3-17 (Gibeonite treaty with Israel), Joshua 10:1-12 (the battle where the sun stood still), Joshua 11:19 and 18:25 (city lists), Joshua 21:17 (Levitical allocation), 2 Samuel 2:12-16 (the pool of Gibeon combat), 2 Samuel 20:8 (Amasa's assassination), 1 Kings 3:4-5 and 9:2 (Solomon's sacrifice and dream at the great high place), 1 Chronicles 8:29, 9:35, 14:16, 16:39, 21:29 (genealogies and tabernacle location), 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1:13 (Solomon at Gibeon), Isaiah 28:21, Jeremiah 28:1 and 41:12, 41:16. The directional form gibeonah appears in 2 Sam 2:12 and 1 Kgs 3:4. All multilingual glosses uniformly render the same toponym across prepositional contexts. 37×
AR["جِبعونَ","جِبعونُ","جِبْعونَ","جِبْعونُ","جِبْعُون","جِبْعُونَ","في-جِبعونَ","فِي-جِبْعُونَ"]·ben["-গিবয়োনে","গিবয়োন","গিবয়োনকে","গিবয়োনে","গিবয়োনের","গিবিয়োন","গিবিয়োনে","গিবিয়োনের"]·DE["Gibeon","Giveon","Givon","[גבעון]","bei-Givon","in-Givon","ist-in-Gibeon","war-Givon","waren-Givon"]·EN["Gibeon","Giveon","Givon","at-Givon","in-Givon","is-in-Gibeon","was-Givon","were-Givon"]·FR["Gabaon","Giveon","Givon","dans-Givon","est-dans-Gabaon","à-Givon","étaient-Givon","était-Givon"]·heb["ב-גבעון","גבעון"]·HI["गिबोन","गिबोन-के","गिबोन-में"]·ID["Ama","Gibeon","di-Gibeon"]·IT["Gabaon","Giveon","a-Gabaon","fu-Gabaon","furono-Gabaon","in-Gabaon","è-in-Gabaon"]·jav["Gibeon","Gibeyon","Gibéon","wonten-Gibéon","wonten-ing-Gibéon"]·KO["기브온","기브온-의","기브온과","기브온까지","기브온에","기브온은","기브온을","기브온의","에-기브온","에-기브온에서"]·PT["Giv'on","Giveón","Givon","em-Giv'on"]·RU["Гивеона","Гивон","Гивона","в-Гивоне"]·ES["Gabaón","Gibeon","en-Gabaón","en-Gibeon"]·SW["Gibeoni","katika-Gibeoni","la-Gibeoni","wa-Gibeoni"]·TR["Gibeon'un","Givon","Givon'a","Givon'da","Givon'u","Givon'un"]·urd["جبعون","جبعون-میں","جبعون-کا","جبعون-کے"]
Josh 9:3, Josh 9:17, Josh 10:1, Josh 10:2, Josh 10:4, Josh 10:5, Josh 10:6, Josh 10:10, Josh 10:12, Josh 10:41, Josh 11:19, Josh 18:25 (+25 more)
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† גִּבְעוֹן n.pr.loc.—ג׳ Jos 9:17 +; c. ָה loc., גִּבְע֫וֹנָה 2 S 12 cf. 1 K 3:4;—Levitical city in tribe of Benjamin; formerly inhabited by Hivites Jos 9:17; 10:2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 41; 11:19; 18:25; 21:17 2 S 2:12, 13 (pool of Gibeon) v 16; 3:30; 20:8 Je 28:1; 41:12 (great waters which are in Gibeon) v 16 1 Ch 14:16; vid. especially יוֹשְׁבֵי ג׳, אַנְשֵׁי ג׳ Jos 9:3 (called Hivites 9:7) 10:1, 6;…