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Gibeah

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Gibeah (gĭb`ēə) [Heb.,=hill].

1 In the Bible, home town and capital of Saul; the present-day Tell el-Ful, the West Bank, 3 mi (4.8 km) N of Jerusalem. A fortress that may have been Saul's residence was excavated there.

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See L. A. Sinclair, An Archaeological Study of Gibeah (1960).

2 In the Book of Joshua, town, S ancient Palestine, somewhere S of Hebron Hebron, city (2003 est. pop. 155,000), the West Bank, called Al-Khalil in modern Arabic. Hebron is situated at an altitude of 3,000 ft (910 m) in a region where grapes, cereal grains, and vegetables are grown.
..... Click the link for more information. . The Gibeah of Second Chronicles may be the same as either of these or a different place. See also Gibea Gibea (gĭb`ēə), in the Bible, name of Caleb's grandson occurring in a list of Judahite towns.
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