ΓΑΒΑΩΝΕΙΤΑΙ, γαβαωνειται
GABAŌNEITAI, gabaōneitai
Sounds Like: gah-bah-oh-NEE-tai
Translations: Gibeonites
From the root: ΓΑΒΑΩΝΙΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the Gibeonites, a people group mentioned in the Old Testament. They were inhabitants of the city of Gibeon, who made a covenant with Joshua and the Israelites, deceiving them into believing they were from a distant land. As a result, they were spared from destruction but were made servants to the Israelites, specifically 'hewers of wood and drawers of water'. The word is used to refer to these people collectively.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1047 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΒΑΩΝΙΤΗΣ.
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.
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΕΙΤΑΣ — Gibeonites, (to) Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΕΙΤΩΝ — (of) the Gibeonites
- ΓΑΒΑΩΝΙΤΗΣ — Gibeonite, a Gibeonite
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