gilad · Gilead

What it means

gilad (גִּלְעָד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gilead”.

The hill country east of the Jordan; also the name of Israelites.

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.

The place

• Gilead

  Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River

  A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.

  Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).

  Genesis 31:21Numbers 32:1Judges 11:1Jeremiah 8:22

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×16
• Judges×31
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×11
• 2 Kings×7
• 1 Chronicles×13
• 2 Chronicles×8
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×2
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 31:21

  He fled, he and all that he had; he rose, crossed the River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:23

  He took his brothers with him and pursued him a journey of seven days, and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:25

  Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban encamped with his brothers in the hill country of Gilead.

• Genesis 37:25

  Then they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted their eyes and looked, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying aromatic gum, balm, and ladanum, on their way to take it down to Egypt.

• Numbers 26:29

  The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

• Numbers 26:30

  These are the sons of Gilead: Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

• Numbers 27:1

  The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh son of Joseph, came near. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 32:1

  The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had much livestock, very numerous; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and look, the place was a place for livestock.

• Numbers 32:26

  Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals shall be there in the cities of Gilead,

• Numbers 32:29

  Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben cross with you the Jordan, every armed man for the war before YHWH, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

• Numbers 32:39

  The sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it.

• Numbers 32:40

  Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

• Numbers 36:1

  The heads of the fathers’ houses of the family of the sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 2:36

  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the wadi, as far as Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; YHWH our Elohim delivered all of them before us.

• Deuteronomy 3:10

  all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 3:12

  This land we took possession of at that time. From Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

• Deuteronomy 3:13

  The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.

• Deuteronomy 3:15

  To Machir I gave Gilead.

• Deuteronomy 3:16

  To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, and as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Deuteronomy 4:43

  Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

• Deuteronomy 34:1

  And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and YHWH showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan,

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 13:11

  and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

• Joshua 13:25

  And their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah;

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• Joshua 17:1

  And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, he had Gilead and Bashan.

• Joshua 17:3

  But Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Joshua 17:5

  And ten allotments fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan,

• Joshua 17:6

  because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons; and the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

• Joshua 20:8

  And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 21:38

  And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

• Joshua 22:9

  So the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh returned and went away from the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had taken possession of according to the command of YHWH through Moses.

• Joshua 22:13

  And the sons of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest,

• Joshua 22:15

  And they came to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

• Joshua 22:32

  Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and they brought back word to them.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.

• Judges 7:3

  Now therefore, proclaim, please, in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him turn back and withdraw from Mount Gilead.’” Twenty-two thousand of the people turned back, and ten thousand remained.

• Judges 10:4

  He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities; them they call Havvoth-jair to this day; they are in the land of Gilead.

• Judges 10:8

  They shattered and crushed the sons of Israel that year; eighteen years they did so to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead.

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