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גִּבְעָה

giva · hill

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1389 · appears 71 times in the Bible

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What it means

giva (גִּבְעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hill”.

How to say it

gi·va

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.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A small mount, sometimes a place of worship.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Hill: a height lower than a mountain. It often goes in a pair with הַר (mountain). It is the same word as the name of the town of Gibeah.

Historical and cultural background

The kings who turned away from YHWH sacrificed at the high places, “on the hills and under every leafy tree” (2 Kings 16:4).

How we translate it

“Hills” 39 times and “hill” 30, also in the blessings of Jacob and of Moses (“the eternal hills”, Genesis 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:15). When it names the town it is written “Gibeah”, as a proper name (2 times).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • hills ×39
  • hill ×30
  • Gibeah ×2

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 49:26

    The blessings of your father have prevailed over the blessings of my ancestors, up to the bounds of the eternal hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

  • Exodus 17:9

    Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of Elohim in my hand.”

  • Exodus 17:10

    Joshua did as Moses told him, to fight against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

  • Numbers 23:9

    For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I gaze on him. Look, a people that dwells alone, and does not count itself among the nations!

  • Deuteronomy 12:2

    You shall completely wipe out all the places where the nations that you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

  • Deuteronomy 33:15

    and with the top of the ancient mountains, and with the choicest of the eternal hills,

  • Joshua 5:3

    So Joshua made for himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.

  • Joshua 24:33

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

  • 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.

  • 1 Samuel 7:1

    And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and brought up the ark of YHWH and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill; and they consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of YHWH.

  • 1 Samuel 10:5

    After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

  • 1 Samuel 10:10

    When they came there, to Gibeah, look, a band of prophets came to meet him; and the spirit of Elohim came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.

  • 1 Samuel 23:19

    Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the south of the wasteland?

  • 1 Samuel 26:1

    The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, facing the wasteland?”

  • 1 Samuel 26:3

    Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is facing the wasteland, by the road. David was staying in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness.

  • 2 Samuel 2:24

    Joab and Abishai pursued Abner; and the sun was going down when they came as far as the hill of Ammah, which is opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

  • 2 Samuel 2:25

    The sons of Benjamin gathered behind Abner and became one band, and they stood on the top of a hill.

  • 2 Samuel 6:3

    They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart.

  • 2 Samuel 6:4

    They carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, with the ark of Elohim; and Ahio was walking before the ark.

  • 1 Kings 14:23

    They also built for themselves high places and standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

  • 2 Kings 16:4

    He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

  • 2 Kings 17:10

    They set up for themselves standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:4

    He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

  • Job 15:7

    Were you born the first of human beings, and before the hills were you brought forth?

  • Psalms 65:12

    The pastures of the wilderness drip, and with jubilation the hills gird themselves.

  • Psalms 72:3

    May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills, in righteousness.

  • Psalms 114:4

    The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

  • Psalms 114:6

    mountains, that you skip like rams, hills, like lambs?

  • Psalms 148:9

    the mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,

  • Proverbs 8:25

    Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth;

  • Song of Songs 2:8

    The voice of my beloved! Look, here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

  • Song of Songs 4:6

    Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Isaiah 2:2

    And it will happen at the end of the days that the mountain of the house of YHWH will be established at the top of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it,

  • Isaiah 2:14

    and against all the lofty mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up;

  • Isaiah 10:32

    Yet today at Nob he will halt; he will shake his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 30:17

    One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you will flee, until you are left like a flagpole on the top of the mountain, and like a banner on the hill.

  • Isaiah 30:25

    And there will be, on every high mountain and on every lofty hill, streams, channels of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

  • Isaiah 31:4

    For thus YHWH said to me: “As the lion growls, and the young lion, over its prey, when a full band of shepherds is called out against it, at their voice it is not terrified, and at their tumult it is not abashed, so YHWH Tsevaot will come down to wage war upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

  • Isaiah 40:4

    Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the crooked will become a plain, and the rough places a broad valley.

  • Isaiah 40:12

    Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?

And 31 more times.