Strong's Lexicon

H1389

H1389 — גִּבעָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewgib`ahnoun femOccurrences: 71TWOT: 309a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1389
Word:גִּבעָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine from the same as H1387
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:71
Transliteration:gib`ah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ghib-aw'
Meaning:1. a hillock
KJV Renderings:hill, little hill.

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I. גִּבְעָה noun feminine hill — absolute גִּבְעָה 2Sam 2:25 + 13 t. + Ezek 6:13 (strike out Co q. v.) 1Sam 7:1; 2Sam 6:3; 2Sam 6:4 (compare Dr); construct גִּבְעַת Josh 5:3 + 8 t. + 1Sam 10:5 (compare Dr); suffix גִּבְעָתִי Ezek 34:26 (but strike out Co), גִּבְעָתָהּ Isa 31:4 plural absolute גְּבָעוֺת Deut 12:2 + 35 t.; construct גִּבְעוֺת Deut 33:15; Hab 3:6, גִּבְעֹת Gen 49:26 suffix גִּבְעוֺתֶיךָ Ezek 35:8hill, height, elevation, both high and low, compare Ps 148:9 ההרים וכל גבעות, Ps 65:13

1. in ordinary prose, hill, lower than mountain Exod 17:9; Exod 17:10 ( E ) 2Sam 2:25 it may be proper name in 1Sam 7:1; 1Sam 10:10; 2Sam 6:3; 2Sam 6:4 see also below II. גִּבְעָה.
2. especially as place of illicit worship גְּבֹהָה ותחת כל עץ רענן ׳ עַל כָּלגֿ 1Kgs 14:23; 2Kgs 17:10; Jer 2:20 compare Deut 12:2; 2Kgs 16:4; 2Chr 28:4 (these two + במות); also Hos 4:13; Jer 13:27; Jer 17:2; Ezek 6:13 (see above).
3. very commonly || הר in poetry & prophets Deut 33:15; Ps 72:3; Ps 114:4; Ps 114:6; Ps 148:9; Song 2:8; Song 4:6; Isa 2:2; Isa 2:14; Isa 30:17; Isa 30:25; Isa 31:4; Isa 40:4; Isa 40:12; Isa 41:15; Isa 42:15; Isa 54:10; Isa 55:12; Isa 65:7; Jer 3:23; Jer 4:24; Jer 16:16; Jer 50:7; Ezek 6:3; Ezek 34:6; Ezek 35:8; Ezek 36:4; Ezek 36:6; Hos 4:13; Hos 10:8; Josh 4:18; Amos 9:13; Mic 4:1; Mic 6:1; Nah 1:5; Hab 3:6 rarely in prose Deut 12:2 sometimes as high and majestic (poetry) עולם ׳ ג Gen 49:26; Deut 33:15; Hab 3:6 ('everlasting hills'); compare also Job 15:7; Prov 8:25(with adjective high, compare above); see also Jer 49:16.
4. hills with special names, some nearly or quite = proper name, of a location, which see under the respective words: מֹרֶה ׳ ג Judg 7:1 teacher's hill, in valley of Jezreel; הָעֲרָלוֺת ׳ ג Josh 5:3 hill of the fore-skins; הָאֱלֹהִים ׳ ג 1Sam 10:5 (a designation of Gibeah); הַחֲכִילָה ׳ ג 1Sam 23:19; 1Sam 26:1; 1Sam 26:3 אַמָּה ׳ ג 2Sam 2:24 הַלְּבוֺנָה ׳ ג Song 4:6 (i.e. hill where frankincense is grown); גָּרֵב֑ ׳ ג Jer 31:39 יְרוּשָׁלַם ׳ ג Isa 10:32 compare Isa 31:4 (where || הַרצִֿיּוֺן), Ezek 34:26 (see above) & הַגְּבָעוֺת Zeph 1:10 hills on which Jerusalem stands.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גבעה (giv-gah’)

Genesis 49:26

KJV: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
EHCC: bound of the everlasting hills :

Exodus 17:9

KJV: And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.Joshua: called Jesus
EHCC: 1 will stand on the op Of the hill

Numbers 23:9

KJV: For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
EHCC: and from the hills 1 behold him:

Job 15:7

KJV: Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
EHCC: wast thou made before the hills ?

Psalms 148:9

KJV: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
EHCC: Mountains, and all hills ;

Proverbs 8:25

KJV: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
EHCC: before the hills was 1 brought forth:

Song of Songs 2:8

KJV: The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
EHCC: skipping upon the hills.

Song of Songs 4:6

KJV: Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.break: Heb. breathe
EHCC: to the Aill of frankincense.

Isaiah 2:2

KJV: And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.established: or, prepared
EHCC: shall be exalted above the hills ;

Isaiah 10:32

KJV: As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
EHCC: the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:17

KJV: One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.a beacon: or, a tree bereft of branches, or, boughs: or, a mast
EHCC: a8 an ensign on an hill,

Isaiah 31:4

KJV: For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.noise: or, multitude
EHCC: for the hill thereof.

Isaiah 40:4

KJV: Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:straight: or, a straight placeplain: or, a plain place
EHCC: every mountain and hill shall

Isaiah 41:15

KJV: Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.teeth: Heb. mouths
EHCC: aad shalt make the hills

Isaiah 42:15

KJV: I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
EHCC: make waste mountains and hile,

Isaiah 54:10

KJV: For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
EHCC: and the hills be removed ;

Isaiah 55:12

KJV: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
EHCC: the mountains and the hills

Isaiah 65:7

KJV: Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
EHCC: blasphemed me upon the hile:

Jeremiah 2:20

KJV: For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.transgress: or, serve
EHCC: when upon every igh וא

Jeremiah 3:23

KJV: Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
EHCC: from the hills, (and from) the

Jeremiah 4:2

KJV: And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
EHCC: all the hills moved lightly,

Jeremiah 13:27

KJV: I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?when…: Heb. after when yet?
EHCC: abominations on the hilly

Jeremiah 16:16

KJV: Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
EHCC: and from every Aill,

Jeremiah 17:2

KJV: Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
EHCC: upon the high ‘hills,

Jeremiah 31:39

KJV: And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
EHCC: upon the hill Gareb,

Jeremiah 49:16

KJV: Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
EHCC: holdest the height of the hill:

Jeremiah 50:6

KJV: My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.restingplace: Heb. place to lie down in
EHCC: gone from mountain to Aili,

Ezekiel 6:3

KJV: And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
EHCC: and to the hills, to the rivers,

Ezekiel 20:28

KJV: For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
EHCC: they saw every high ail,

Ezekiel 34:6

KJV: My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
EHCC: upon every high Ail;

Ezekiel 35:8

KJV: And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
EHCC: in thy fills, and in thy valleys,

Ezekiel 36:4

KJV: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;rivers: or, bottoms, or, dales
EHCC: 6. and to the hills, to the rivers,

Hosea 4:13

KJV: They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
EHCC: burn incense upon the hills,

Hosea 10:8

KJV: The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
EHCC: and to the hills, Fall חס us,

Joel 3:18

KJV: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.flow: Heb. go
EHCC: (4: Apel the hills shall flow

Amos 9:13

KJV: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.soweth: Heb. draweth forthsweet: or, new
EHCC: all the hills shall melt.

Micah 4:1

KJV: But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
EHCC: shall be exalted above the hills <

Micah 6:1

KJV: Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.before: or, with
EHCC: let the hills hear thy voice.

Zephaniah 1:10

KJV: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
EHCC: a great crashing from the hills.
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