גִּבְעָה

Joshua 15:57 גִּבְעָ֣ה Gibeah

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah—ten cities, along with their villages.

Joshua 24:33 בְּגִבְעַת֙ at Gibeah of

Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Here: "At the hill of" or "at Gibeah of." Giv'ah is the ordinary word for a hill, and many towns were named after it. It is unclear whether this is a place name ("Gibeah of Phinehas") or a description ("the hill belonging to Phinehas").

Judges 19:12 גִּבְעָֽה׃ Gibeah

But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

Judges 19:13 בַגִּבְעָ֖ה in <the> Gibeah

He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

Judges 19:14 הַגִּבְעָ֖ה <the> Gibeah

So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

Here: The place name means 'hill' and keeps its article: 'the Gibeah,' 'the Hill-town.' This is a real Benjaminite town a few miles north of Jerusalem, later famous as King Saul's home.

Judges 19:15 בַּגִּבְעָ֑ה in <the> Gibeah

They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

Judges 19:16 בַּגִּבְעָ֑ה in <the> Gibeah

That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

Judges 20:4 הַגִּבְעָ֙תָה֙ <the> Gibeah towards

So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

Judges 20:5 הַגִּבְעָ֔ה <the> Gibeah

And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

Judges 20:9 לַגִּבְעָ֑ה to <the> Gibeah

Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.

Judges 20:13 בַּגִּבְעָה֙ [are] in <the> Gibeah

Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

Judges 20:14 הַגִּבְעָ֑תָה <the> Gibeah towards

And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

Judges 20:15 הַגִּבְעָה֙ <the> Gibeah

On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

Judges 20:19 הַגִּבְעָֽה׃ פ <the> Gibeah

The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.

Judges 20:20 הַגִּבְעָֽה׃ <the> Gibeah

And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.

Judges 20:21 הַגִּבְעָ֑ה <the> Gibeah

And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

Judges 20:25 הַגִּבְעָה֮ <the> Gibeah

That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

Judges 20:29 הַגִּבְעָ֖ה <the> Gibeah

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:30 הַגִּבְעָ֖ה <the> Gibeah

On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.

Judges 20:31 גִּבְעָ֙תָה֙ Gibeah towards

The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

Judges 20:34 לַגִּבְעָ֜ה to <the> Gibeah

Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

Here: Gibeah ('the hill'), the Benjamite town where the crime of Judges 19 took place. The definite article reflects the place name's origin as an ordinary word: 'the Hill'.

Judges 20:36 הַגִּבְעָֽה׃ <the> Gibeah

Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

Here: A Benjaminite town whose name means 'the hill', so it carries the article: 'the Gibeah'. This is where the crime of chapter 19 took place, and now it is the target.

Judges 20:37 הַגִּבְעָ֑ה <the> Gibeah

The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

Judges 20:43 הַגִּבְעָ֖ה <the> Gibeah

They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

1 Samuel 10:5 גִּבְעַ֣ת Gibeah of

After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

Here: Literally 'hill of'. Many towns in Benjamin had names built on this word (Gibeah, Geba, Gibeon), so it can be read as a common noun ('the hill of God') or a place name ('Gibeah of God').

1 Samuel 10:10 הַגִּבְעָ֔תָה <the> Gibeah towards

When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied along with them.

Here: 'Toward the Gibeah', with an ending that marks direction. The word means 'hill'. With 'the' attached it could be a place name (Gibeah, Saul's home town) or simply 'the hill' already mentioned in 10:5. KJV and WEB take it as 'the hill'; BSB takes it as the town.

1 Samuel 10:26 גִּבְעָ֑תָה Gibeah towards

Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.

1 Samuel 11:4 גִּבְעַ֣ת Gibeah of

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

1 Samuel 13:2 בְּגִבְעַ֖ת at Gibeah of

He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

1 Samuel 13:15 גִּבְעַ֣ת Gibeah of

Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 14:2 הַגִּבְעָ֔ה <the> Gibeah

Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,

1 Samuel 14:16 בְּגִבְעַ֖ת at Gibeah of

Now when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,

1 Samuel 15:34 גִּבְעַ֥ת Gibeah of

Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 22:6 בַּגִּבְעָ֜ה at <the> Gibeah

Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.

1 Samuel 23:19 הַגִּבְעָ֖תָה <the> Gibeah towards

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

Here: 'Toward the Gibeah': Saul's home town and royal seat in Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem. The ending -āh means direction ('to Gibeah'). Gibeah literally means 'hill', and the same word comes back below for David's hiding place.

1 Samuel 26:1 הַגִּבְעָ֖תָה <the> Gibeah towards

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”

2 Samuel 21:6 בְּגִבְעַ֥ת at Gibeah of

let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.

Here: Gibeah was Saul's hometown and royal seat (1 Sam 10:26; 15:34). Displaying his descendants in his own town is pointed. The Greek reads Gibeon, the Gibeonites' own city (see textual notes).

2 Samuel 23:29 מִגִּבְעַ֖ת from Gibeah of

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,

1 Chronicles 11:31 מִגִּבְעַת֙ from Gibeah of

Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

2 Chronicles 13:2 גִּבְעָ֑ה Gibeah

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Isaiah 10:29 גִּבְעַ֥ת Gibeah of

They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

Hosea 5:8 בַּגִּבְעָ֔ה in <the> Gibeah

Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!

Here: 'In Gibeah', a Benjaminite town about 5 km north of Jerusalem, Saul's home town and the scene of the atrocity in Judges 19–21, which Hosea remembers twice (9:9; 10:9). The name means 'hill', and the Hebrew keeps the article ('the Hill'), so a hearer would also catch the idea of a horn sounding from a hilltop.

Hosea 9:9 הַגִּבְעָ֑ה <the> Gibeah

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Here: Gibeah, the town of Benjamin. The name means "hill" and carries the article ("the Gibeah"). For Israelites it called up the atrocity of Judges 19–21, and perhaps also the start of Saul's kingship, which was based there.

Hosea 10:9 הַגִּבְעָ֔ה בַּגִּבְעָ֛ה <the> Gibeah, in <the> Gibeah

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?