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Lexicon :: Strong's H1439 - giḏʿôn

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גִּדְעוֹן
Transliteration
giḏʿôn
Pronunciation
ghid-ohn'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 316a

Strong’s Definitions

גִּדְעוֹן Gidʻôwn, ghid-ohn'; from H1438; feller (i.e. warrior); Gidon, an Israelite:—Gideon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H1439 in the following manner: Gideon (39x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H1439 in the following manner: Gideon (39x).

  1. Gideon = "hewer"

    1. youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, fifth judge of Israel who led the Israelites against the Midianites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּדְעוֹן Gidʻôwn, ghid-ohn'; from H1438; feller (i.e. warrior); Gidon, an Israelite:—Gideon.
STRONGS H1439: Abbreviations
גִּדִעוֺן proper name, masculine judge of Israel Judges 6:11, 13, 19 + 36 times Judges 6-8; — called also יְרֻבַּעַל (which see) Judges 6:32; Judges 7:1 etc., & יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת (which see) 2 Samuel 11:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

6:11; 6:13; 6:19; 6:32; 7:1

2 Samuel

11:21

H1439

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1439 matches the Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (giḏʿôn),
which occurs 39 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo'ash the Abiez'rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid'ianites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - And Gideon said to him, "Pray, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this befallen us? And where are all his wonderful deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has cast us off, and given us into the hand of Mid'ian."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:19 - So Gideon went into his house and prepared a kid, and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the oak and presented them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD; and Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:24 - Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it, The LORD is peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiez'rites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had made search and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Jo'ash has done this thing."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:34 - But the Spirit of the LORD took possession of Gideon; and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiez'rites were called out to follow him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Then Gideon said to God, "If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, "Let not thy anger burn against me, let me speak but this once; pray, let me make trial only this once with the fleece; pray, let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Mid'ian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Mid'ianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has delivered me.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; take them down to the water and I will test them for you there; and he of whom I say to you, 'This man shall go with you,' shall go with you; and any of whom I say to you, 'This man shall not go with you,' shall not go."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the people down to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, "Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Mid'ianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Mid'ian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Jo'ash, a man of Israel; into his hand God has given Mid'ian and all the host."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped; and he returned to the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for the LORD has given the host of Mid'ian into your hand."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:20 - And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow; and they cried, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of E'phraim, saying, "Come down against the Mid'ianites and seize the waters against them, as far as Beth-bar'ah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of E'phraim were called out, and they seized the waters as far as Beth-bar'ah, and also the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the two princes of Mid'ian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the wine press of Zeeb, as they pursued Mid'ian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 - And Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint yet pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jog'behah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:13 - Then Gideon the son of Jo'ash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmun'na said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmun'na; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Mid'ian."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ish'maelites.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Mid'ian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - And Gideon the son of Jo'ash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Jo'ash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiez'rites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Ba'als, and made Ba'al-be'rith their god.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
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