ΓΑΒΑΩΝ, γαβαων
GABAŌN, gabaōn
Sounds Like: gah-bah-OHN
Translations: Gibeon, (of) Gibeon, (in) Gibeon
From the root: ΓΑΒΑΩΝ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Gibeon was an ancient city in Canaan, located northwest of Jerusalem. It is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament as a significant city, particularly in the books of Joshua, Samuel, and Kings. It was known for its inhabitants, the Gibeonites, who made a treaty with Joshua. The word is used to refer to the city itself or to people associated with it.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Locative
Strong’s number: G1002 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 19:32
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Joshua — 9:9, 9:23, 9:33, 10:1, 10:2, 10:4, 10:5, 10:6, 10:10, 10:12, 10:41, 18:25, 21:17
- 2 Samuel — 2:13, 2:16, 2:24, 3:30, 5:25, 20:8, 21:6
- 1 Kings — 3:4, 16:15
- 1 Chronicles — 8:29, 9:35, 14:16, 16:39, 21:29
- 2 Chronicles — 1:3, 1:13, 13:2
- Nehemiah — 7:25
- Isaiah — 28:21
- Jeremiah — 35:1, 48:12, 48:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΒΑΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΓΑΒΑΗΝ — of Gibeon, Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΑΗΝΟΙ — Gibeonites, inhabitants of Gibeon
- ΓΑΒΑΗΝΟΥΣ — Gibeonites, the Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΑΗΝΩΝ — (of) Gibeonites, (of) the Gibeonites, (of) people of Gibeon
- ΓΑΒΑΩ — Gibeon
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΕΙΤΗΣ — Gibeonite, a Gibeonite
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΙΤΑΙ — Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΙΤΑΣ — Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΩ — Gibeon
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