gidon · Gideon

What it means

gidon (גִּדְעוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gideon”.

Son of Joash, of the tribe of Manasseh; a judge who saved Israel from Midian. The name means "one who cuts down." He is also called Jerubbaal.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges 6:11

  The angel of YHWH came and sat under the oak that is in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while Gideon his son was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from Midian.

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Pardon, my lord, if YHWH is with us, why has all this found us? And where are all his wonders that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not YHWH bring us up from Egypt?’ But now YHWH has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in the basket, and the broth he put in the pot, and he brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.

• Judges 6:22

  Gideon saw that he was the angel of YHWH, and Gideon said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! For because of this I have seen the angel of YHWH face to face.”

• Judges 6:24

  Gideon built there an altar to YHWH and called it YHWH Shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

• Judges 6:27

  Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as YHWH had told him. But because he was afraid of the house of his father and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

• Judges 6:29

  They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” They inquired and searched, and they said, “Gideon son of Joash has done this thing.”

• Judges 6:34

  The spirit of YHWH clothed Gideon, and he blew the horn, and Abiezer was summoned after him.

• Judges 6:36

  Gideon said to Elohim, “If you are going to save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to Elohim, “Do not let your anger burn against me, and let me speak just this time. Please let me test just this time with the fleece: please let there be dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land let there be dew.”

• Judges 7:1

  Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, rose early, with all the people who were with him, and they camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of him, from the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

• Judges 7:2

  YHWH said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, ‘My hand has saved me.’

• Judges 7:4

  YHWH said to Gideon, “The people are still many. Bring them down to the water, and I will refine them for you there. And it will be that whoever I say to you, ‘This one will go with you,’ he will go with you; and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one will not go with you,’ he will not go.”

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 7:7

  YHWH said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and give Midian into your hand; and let all the people go, each to his place.”

• Judges 7:13

  Gideon came, and there was a man recounting a dream to his companion. He said, “Look, I dreamed a dream: there was a round loaf of barley tumbling into the camp of Midian; it came to the tent and struck it, and it fell; it turned it upside down, and the tent fell flat.”

• Judges 7:14

  His companion answered and said, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; Elohim has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”

• Judges 7:15

  When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for YHWH has given into your hand the camp of Midian.”

• Judges 7:18

  When I blow the horn, I and all who are with me, then you also shall blow the horns all around the whole camp and say, ‘For YHWH and for Gideon!’”

• Judges 7:19

  Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the watch in the middle, when they had just set the guards; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hand.

• Judges 7:20

  The three companies blew the horns and broke the jars; they held in their left hand the torches, and in their right hand the horns to blow, and they called out, “A sword for YHWH and for Gideon!”

• Judges 7:24

  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian and capture ahead of them the waters as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.

• Judges 7:25

  They captured the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued after Midian, and they brought the head of Oreb and of Zeeb to Gideon from beyond the Jordan.

• Judges 8:4

  Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.

• Judges 8:7

  Gideon said, “Therefore, when YHWH gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with the briers.”

• Judges 8:11

  Gideon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he struck the camp, while the camp was feeling secure.

• Judges 8:13

  Gideon son of Joash returned from the war by the ascent of Heres.

• Judges 8:21

  Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon rose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.

• Judges 8:22

  The men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son and your son’s son, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 8:23

  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; YHWH will rule over you.”

• Judges 8:24

  Gideon said to them, “Let me ask of you a request: give me each man an earring from his spoil.” For they had earrings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.

• Judges 8:27

  Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there, and it became for Gideon and for his house a trap.

• Judges 8:28

  So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not again lift up their head; and the land was calm forty years in the days of Gideon.

• Judges 8:30

  Gideon had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

• Judges 8:32

  Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

• Judges 8:33

  As soon as Gideon died, the sons of Israel again prostituted themselves after the Baals, and they made Baal-berith their god.

• Judges 8:35

  nor did they show loyal love to the house of Jerubbaal, Gideon, in accordance with all the good that he had done for Israel.

And 2 more times.