Gilboa

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Gilboa: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a mountain or plateau between Jezreel and the Jordan River (OS)

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Google Maps: Gilboa (32° 30´, 35° 24´)

Hebrew

Strongs #01533: eblg Gilboa`

Gilboa = "swollen heap"

1) a mountain-ridge at the southeastern end of the plain of Jezreel,
site of the death of Saul and Jonathan

1533 Gilboa` ghil-bo'-ah

from 1530 and 1158; fountain of ebullition; Gilboa, a
mountain of Palestine:-Gilboa.
see HEBREW for 01530
see HEBREW for 01158

Gilboa [EBD]

boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable as the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chr. 10:1, 8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidings of this defeat were conveyed to David, he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the "Song of the Bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27).

Gilboa [NAVE]

GILBOA, a hill S. of Jezreel, where Saul was defeated by the Philistines, and died, 1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 1 Chr. 10:1-8.

GILBOA [SMITH]

(a bubbling spring) a mountain range on the eastern side of the plain of Esdraelon, rising over the city of Jezreel. Comp. (1 Samuel 28:4) with 1Sam 29:1 It is mentioned in Scripture only in connection with one event in Israelitish history, the defeat and death of Saul and Jonathan by the Philistines. (1 Samuel 31:11; 2 Samuel 1:6; 21:12; 1 Chronicles 10:1,8) Of the identity of Gilboa with the ridge which stretches eastward from the ruins of Jezreel no doubt can be entertained. The village is now called Jelbou .