Strong's H1387 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: גֶּבַע (Gebaʻ)

Pronunciation: gheh'-bah

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Gaba or Geba or Gibeah = "hill"

Derivation: from the same as גְּבִיעַ (gᵉbîyaʻ) [H1375], a hillock;

Definition: Geba, a place in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Gaba, Geba, Gibeah.

Senses

1. a city in Benjamin, modern 'Jeba', which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern 'Mukhmas'

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.