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•GEBA the hill, (2 Samuel 5:25 [1 Chronicles 14:16, “Gibeon”]; 2 Kings 23:8; Nehemiah 11:31), a Levitical city of Benjamin (1 Kings 15:22; 1 Samuel 13:16; 14:5, wrongly “Gibeah” in the A.V.), on the north border of Judah near Gibeah (Isaiah 10:29; Joshua 18:24, 28). “From Geba to Beersheba” expressed the whole extent of the kingdom of Judah, just as “from Dan to Beersheba” described the whole length of Palestine (2 Kings 23:8). It has been identified with Gaba (Joshua 18:24; Ezra 2:26; Nehemiah 7:30), now Jeb’a, about 5 1/2 miles north of Jerusalem.
•GEBAL a line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1.) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Psalm 83:7); now called Djebal.
(2.) A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezekiel 27:9); called by the Greeks Byblos. Now Jibeil. Mentioned in the Amarna tablets.
An important Phoenician text, referring to the temple of Baalath, on a monument of Yehu-melek, its king (probably B.C. 600), has been discovered.
•GEBALITES (1 Kings 5:18 R.V., in A.V. incorrectly rendered, after the Targum, “stone-squarers,” but marg. “Giblites”), the inhabitants of Gebal (2).
•GEBER a valiant man, (1 Kings 4:19), one of Solomon’s purveyors, having jurisdiction over a part of Gilead, comprising all the kingdom of Sihon and part of the kingdom of Og (Deuteronomy 2; 31).
•GEBIM cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jeremiah 14:3; “locusts,” Isaiah 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isaiah 10:31). It is probably the modern el-Isawiyeh.
•GEDALIAH made great by Jehovah. (1.) the son of Jeduthum (1 Chronicles 25:3, 9). (2.) The grandfather of the prophet Zephaniah, and