givʿōn גִּבְעוֹן ‘Gibeon’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?:
from the same as gevaʿ גֶּ֫בַע ‘Geba’
Roots:
גבע
givʿōn pr n loc + pr n m pers
Gibeon = "hill city"
1) a Levitical city of Benjamin, modern 'el-Jib', which lies 5 miles or 8 km from Jerusalem
Mentioned in Joshua 10:1, 10:12, 10:2, 10:6, 9:17, 10:4, 11:19, 10:5, 10:41, 9:3, 21:17, 18:25, 10:10 2 Samuel 2:24, 3:30, 20:8, 2:12, 2:16, 2:13 1 Kings 3:5, 9:2, 3:4 Isaiah 28:21 Jeremiah 41:16, 41:12, 28:1 Nehemiah 3:7, 7:25 1 Chronicles 8:29, 9:35, 16:39, 14:16, 21:29 2 Chronicles 1:3, 1:13