givoni · Gibeonite

What it means

givoni (גִּבְעֹנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gibeonite”.

An inhabitant of Gibeon, a city north of Jerusalem. The Gibeonites were not Israelites; they remained among Israel because of the oath Joshua made to them (Joshua 9).

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Gibeonite: from Gibeon, a city north of Jerusalem.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Gibeonites ×6
• Gibeonite ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1

• 2 Samuel 21:1

  There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of YHWH. YHWH said, “It is because of Saul and because of his house of blood, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”

• 2 Samuel 21:2

  The king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel; they were rather of the remnant of the Amorite; and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, but Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.)

• 2 Samuel 21:3

  David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make expiation, so that you may bless the inheritance of YHWH?”

• 2 Samuel 21:4

  The Gibeonites said to him, “We have no matter of silver or gold with Saul or with his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel.” He said, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 1 Chronicles 12:4

  and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;

• Nehemiah 3:7

  And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired, of the throne of the governor of the other side of the river.

And 1 more times.