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גִּלְעָד proper name, of a location of mountain-range or hill-country, land & city, east of Jordan (compare Arabic 
جَلْمَدً durus, fortis Frey, so Thes; Hi
Geschichte. Israel 26 compare same √ used of 
camel (
جَلْمَادً camelus robustus ac firmus, compare Hom
NS 144), whence 
camel hump, originally name of mountain) — 
ג׳ Genesis 37:25 + 
79 times (mostly as 
proper name, masculine and in combination with other 
proper name, of a location compare below); 
הַגּ׳ Genesis 31:21 + 
50 times (so usually as name of mountain and land); 
גִּלְעָ֫דָה Numbers 32:39; 
1 Chronicles 27:21; 
הִגְּלְעָ֫דָה 2 Samuel 24:6; — 
Gilead, used of territory between the Arnon and the Jabbok, modern 
Belḳa also of that between the Jabbok and the Jarmuk, modern 
Jebel Ajlûn; also of the entire east Jordan land occupied by Israel, including both the parts just named (compare Di 
Genesis 31:54 Stu 
Judges 10:4; Bd
Pal 178; also L. Oliphant
Land of Gilead, 1880); — 
    1. territory south of Jabbok,
    d. עָרֵי הַגּ׳ Numbers 32:26 (J E; of Reuben and Gad); so of Jephthah's burial-place 
Judges 12:7; even 
כָּל־עָרֵי הַגּ׳ Joshua 13:25 (P; of Gad); besides these, or particular cities, especially 
רָאמֹת בַּגּ׳ Deuteronomy 4:43 (of Gad); compare 
רָאמוֺת בַּגּ׳ Joshua 20:8 (P), 
1 Chronicles 6:65 (of Gad), and 
רָמֹת בַּגּ׳ Joshua 21:38 (P); usually 
רָמֹת ג׳ [
H7433 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Kings 22:3, 4, 6, 12, 15, 20, 29; 2 Chronicles 18:2, 3, 5, 11, 14, 19, 28; 2 Kings 8:28; 2 Kings 9:1, 4, 14; 2 Chronicles 22:5]; also 
מִצְמֵּה ג׳ Judges 11:29 (twice in verse); further 
יַעְזֵיר ג׳ 1 Chronicles 26:31.
 
    2. Northern Gilead,
    d. in combination 
יָבֵשׁ ג׳ (city) 
Judges 21:8, 
9, 
10, 
12, 
14; 
1 Samuel 11:1, 
9 (|| 
יָבֵשׁ alone) 
1 Samuel 31:11 (|| 
id.) = 
1 Chronicles 10:11; 
2 Samuel 2:4, 
5; 
2 Samuel 21:12; perhaps also 
(מִ)תִּשְׁבֵּה ג׳ 1 Kings 17:1 (emendation, after 

, Ew Th and others see VB); — compare further below 
6. proper name, masculine below — 
Judges 7:3 וְיִצְמֹּר מֵהַר הַגּ׳ and let him depart from Mt. Gilead, apparently belongs here, but 
מֵהַר הַגִּלְבֹּעַ is read by Cler Hi Gr Ke Be; against this compare Stu Bu
RS 112.
 
    3. more generally, of all Gilead,
    4. ג׳, name of a city 
Hosea 6:8 (& 
Judges 10:17 ? compare 
1. a. above); — on the ruined cities 
Jil‘âd, Jil'‘ud on the 
Jebel Jil‘âd, north of 
Es-salṭ, and south of 
Jabboḳ see Di 
Genesis 31:54 & references
 
    6. treated as proper name, masculine.
    b. father of Jephthah 
Judges 11:1, 
2; — reference to Gad (compare above especially below 
5).
 
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