Senses
1. Gideon (proper name) — The proper name Gideon (Gid'on), the Israelite judge from the tribe of Manasseh who defeated the Midianites (Judges 6-8). All 39 occurrences across both clusters refer to the same individual in various syntactic positions: nominative and accusative (eng: Gideon, spa: Guidon, hin: गिदोन, arb: جِدْعُون, kor: 기드온, swa: Gideoni) and with conjunctive/prepositional prefixes (eng: and-for-Gideon, spa: para-Guidon, arb: لِـ-جِدْعُون, swa: kwa-Gideoni). The name means 'hewer/feller.' 39×
AR["جِدْعونَ","جِدْعونُ","جِدْعُون"]·ben["গিদিয়োন","গিদিয়োনকে","গিদিয়োনের"]·DE["Gideon"]·EN["Gideon"]·FR["Gédéon"]·heb["גדעון"]·HI["गिदोन","गिदोन-की","गिदोन-के","गिदोन-ने"]·ID["Gideon"]·IT["Gedeone"]·jav["Gideon"]·KO["기드온에게","기드온을","기드온의","기드온이","기드온이다"]·PT["Gid'on"]·RU["Гидеон","Гидеона","Гидеону"]·ES["Guidón"]·SW["Gideoni"]·TR["Doğu","Gideon","Yahve","böyle","gönderdi","herkes","kesilmiş","oğlu","sunak","ve-meleği"]·urd["جدعون","جدعون-نے","جدعون-کی"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
גִּדְעוֹן n.pr.m. judge of Israel Ju 6:11, 13, 19 + 36 times Ju 6–8;—called also יְרֻבַּעַל (q.v.) Ju 6:32; 7:1 etc., & יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת (q.v.) 2 S 11:21.