גִּלְעָד
Gilʻâd · ghil-awd'
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: probably from H1567 (גַּלְעֵד);
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
- Gilad, a region East of the Jordan
- also, the name of three Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Gilead, Gileadite.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › authority, the one who leads › to see and know › the doorway, the way in
To carry, to lift up of authority, the one who leads that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גִּלְעָד 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
134 occurrences · 134 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of gilead50 · 39%
- gilead18 · 14%
- in gilead10 · 8%
- of jabeshgilead9 · 7%
- to ramothgilead9 · 7%
- and gilead6 · 5%
- from gilead3 · 2%
- at ramothgilead3 · 2%
- to gilead2 · 2%
- in ramothgilead2 · 2%
- against ramothgilead2 · 2%
- even unto gilead1 · 1%
- and all gilead1 · 1%
- therefore he had gilead1 · 1%
- which is in gilead1 · 1%
- and gilead's1 · 1%
- ye gileadites1 · 1%
- and the gileadites1 · 1%
- from jabeshgilead1 · 1%
- against jabeshgilead1 · 1%
- over gilead1 · 1%
- which are in gilead1 · 1%
- ramothgilead1 · 1%
- even gilead1 · 1%
- land of gilead1 · 1%
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.