Gibeah


Gibeah

(gĭb`ēə) [Heb.,=hill]. 1 In the Bible, home town and capital of Saul; the present-day Tell el-Ful, the West Bank, 3 mi (4.8 km) N of Jerusalem. A fortress that may have been Saul's residence was excavated there.

Bibliography

See L. A. Sinclair, An Archaeological Study of Gibeah (1960).

2 In the Book of Joshua, town, S ancient Palestine, somewhere S of HebronHebron,
Arab. Al-Khalil, city (2003 est. pop. 155,000), the West Bank. Hebron is situated at an altitude of 3,000 ft (910 m) in a region where grapes, cereal grains, and vegetables are grown.
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. The Gibeah of Second Chronicles may be the same as either of these or a different place. See also GibeaGibea
, in the Bible, name of Caleb's grandson occurring in a list of Judahite towns. It is possibly the same as Gibeah (2.)
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