Hebrew word · H3011

יׇגְבְּהָה

veyagebohah

Jogbehah

From g-b-h, 'to be high, lofty'. The same root gives gaboah, 'high', and gobah, 'height'. As a place name it means something like 'height' or 'it is high', which suits a hilltop site.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Jogbehah = "lofty"

one of the cities east of the Jordan which was built and fortified by the tribe of Gad

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Numbers 32:35

Range of meaning

From g-b-h, 'to be high, lofty'. The same root gives gaboah, 'high', and gobah, 'height'. As a place name it means something like 'height' or 'it is high', which suits a hilltop site.

Against the English

English versions agree on 'Jogbehah' (the vowels vary slightly in different editions). Nothing important is lost.

Used elsewhere in the period

Judges 8:11: Gideon went 'by the way of the tent-dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah' to strike the Midianite camp. The name survives in modern el-Jubeihat (Jubeiha), north-west of Amman, now part of the city. This identification is widely accepted.

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 32:35 וְיָגְבֳּהָֽה׃ and Jogbehah

    Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

    Here: From the root g-b-h, 'to be high'. The name means roughly 'it is high', a fitting name for a hill town. There is no object marker here, which is common at the end of a list. The town is mentioned again in Gideon's pursuit of the Midianites (Judges 8:11).

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 8:11 וְיָגְבֳּהָ֑ה and Jogbehah

    And Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise.

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