גִּבְעָה
gibʻâh · ghib-aw'
a hillock
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine from the same as H1387 (גֶּבַע);
a hillock
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hill, little hill.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the house, what is within › to see and know › to reveal, behold
To carry, to lift up of the house, what is within that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גִּבְעָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
68 occurrences · 68 OT · 0 NT · 47 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hill7 · 13%
- hills4 · 8%
- and the hills4 · 8%
- of the hill3 · 6%
- in the hill3 · 6%
- the hills3 · 6%
- and the little hills3 · 6%
- and to the hills3 · 6%
- to the hill2 · 4%
- and on the hills2 · 4%
- upon the hills2 · 4%
- above the hills2 · 4%
- and all the hills2 · 4%
- him, and from the hills1 · 2%
- and upon the hills1 · 2%
- at the hill1 · 2%
- him in a hill1 · 2%
- of them, by the hill1 · 2%
- thither to the hill1 · 2%
- himself in the hill1 · 2%
- of an hill1 · 2%
- and ye little hills1 · 2%
- and all hills1 · 2%
- and to the hill1 · 2%
- and upon all the hills1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.