giva · Gibeah

What it means

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

The name of several towns; it means "hill."

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.

How it is translated

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

• Gibeah ×42
• Geba ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• Judges×23
• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×4

• Joshua 15:57

  Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.

• Judges 19:12

  But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside to a city of foreigners who are not of the sons of Israel here; we will pass on as far as Gibeah.”

• Judges 19:13

  And he said to his young man, “Come, and let us approach one of the places and spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah.”

• Judges 19:14

  So they passed on and went, and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

• Judges 19:15

  And they turned aside there to go in to spend the night in Gibeah; and he went in and sat down in the square of the city, but there was no one taking them into the house to spend the night.

• Judges 19:16

  And look, an old man was coming from his work from the field in the evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was residing as an alien in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjaminites.

• Judges 20:4

  And the man, the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.

• Judges 20:5

  And the lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house around me at night. Me they intended to kill, and my concubine they humiliated, and she died.

• Judges 20:9

  But now this is the thing that we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.

• Judges 20:13

  Now hand over the perverse men who are in Gibeah, so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the sons of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.

• Judges 20:14

  And the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah to go out to war with the sons of Israel.

• Judges 20:15

  And the sons of Benjamin were counted on that day from the cities: twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted: seven hundred chosen men.

• Judges 20:19

  So the sons of Israel arose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:20

  And the men of Israel went out to war with Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up for war against them at Gibeah.

• Judges 20:21

  And the sons of Benjamin came out from Gibeah and brought down in Israel on that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.

• Judges 20:25

  And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day and brought down among the sons of Israel another eighteen thousand men to the ground; all these were men who drew the sword.

• Judges 20:29

  So Israel set men in ambush against Gibeah all around.

• Judges 20:30

  And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and drew up against Gibeah as at other times.

• Judges 20:31

  And the sons of Benjamin went out to meet the people; they were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike some of the people, leaving them dead, as at other times, on the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel and one to Gibeah in the field: about thirty men of Israel.

• Judges 20:33

  And all the men of Israel rose up from their place and drew up at Baal-tamar, and the ambush of Israel burst out from its place, from the clearing of Geba.

• Judges 20:34

  And there came opposite Gibeah ten thousand chosen men from all Israel, and the war was heavy; but they did not know that the evil was reaching them.

• Judges 20:36

  So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were struck down. The men of Israel had given ground to Benjamin, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:37

  And the ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; and the ambush marched and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

• Judges 20:43

  They surrounded Benjamin, pursued him, trod him down without rest as far as opposite Gibeah toward the sunrise.

• 1 Samuel 10:26

  Saul also went to his house at Gibeah, and there went with him the valiant men whose hearts Elohim had touched.

• 1 Samuel 11:4

  The messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke the words in the ears of the people, and all the people raised their voice and wept.

• 1 Samuel 13:2

  Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel; two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin; and the rest of the people he sent away, each to his tents.

• 1 Samuel 13:15

  Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul counted the people who were found with him, about six hundred men.

• 1 Samuel 14:2

  Saul was sitting at the edge of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree that is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men.

• 1 Samuel 14:16

  The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, the multitude was melting away and going this way and that.

• 1 Samuel 15:34

  Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house, to Gibeah of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 22:6

  Saul heard that David had been discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah under the tamarisk on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing by him.

• 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?”

• 2 Samuel 21:6

  let seven men of his sons be given to us, and we will hang them for YHWH at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of YHWH.” The king said, “I will give them.”

• 2 Samuel 23:29

  Heleb son of Baanah the Netophathite; Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin;

• 1 Chronicles 11:31

  Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite;

• 2 Chronicles 13:2

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

• Isaiah 10:29

  They have crossed the pass; “Geba is a lodging for us”; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

• Hosea 5:8

  Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; sound the alarm at Beth-aven: “After you, Benjamin.”

And 3 more times.