Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1387
גֶּבַע
Gebagheh'-bah
Geba
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Gebaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1387is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1387
Geba, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Gaba, Geba, Gibeah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Geba is rendered "Geba". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 18:24Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
Joshua 18:24וָגָ֑בַע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Geba9
- from Geba4
- and Geba3
- at Geba1
- in Geba1
- to Geba1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֶּ֖בַע4
- וָגָ֔בַע2
- מִגֶּ֖בַע2
- בְּגֶ֔בַע1
- בְּגֶ֣בַע1
- גֶ֔בַע1
- גֶּ֥בַע1
- גֶּ֤בַע1
- גָֽבַע׃1
- גָּֽבַע׃ ס1
- וָגָ֑בַע1
- לְגֶ֣בַע1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)9HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)7HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npl
Joshua
two uses
Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba—twelve cities, along with their villages.
- וָגָ֑בַעvagava'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Geba
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
- גֶּ֖בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
Judges
two uses
We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
- לְגֶ֣בַעlegeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Geba
So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
- גָֽבַע׃gava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
1 Samuel
three uses
Then Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
- בְּגֶ֔בַעbegeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Geba
Now Saul and Jonathan his son and the troops with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.
- בְּגֶ֣בַעbegeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Geba
One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.
- גָּֽבַע׃ סgava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
2 Samuel
one use
So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
- מִגֶּ֖בַעmigeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Geba
1 Kings
one use
Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
- גֶּ֥בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
2 Kings
one use
Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
- מִגֶּ֖בַעmigeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Geba
1 Chronicles
two uses
And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. So they had thirteen cities in all among their families.
- גֶּ֤בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
These were the descendants of Ehud who were the heads of the families living in Geba and were exiled to Manahath:
- גֶ֔בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
2 Chronicles
one use
Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
- גֶּ֖בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
Ezra
one use
the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
- וָגָ֔בַעvagava'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Geba
Nehemiah
three uses
the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
- וָגָ֔בַעvagava'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Geba
The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
- מִגָּ֑בַעmigava'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Geba
from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
- גֶּ֖בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
Isaiah
one use
They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
- גֶּ֖בַעgeva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Geba
Zechariah
one use
All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
- מִגֶּ֣בַעmigeva'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Geba
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.