גִּבְעֹנִי
Gibeonite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Gibeonite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1393 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 21:1 הַ/גִּבְעֹנִֽים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.
- 2 Samuel 21:2 לַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֖ים וְ/הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֞ים prep det + n Gentilic mp conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
- 2 Samuel 21:3 הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?
- 2 Samuel 21:4 הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.
- 2 Samuel 21:9 הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גבעני — transliterated Gibʻônîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Gibeonite.” Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Samuel (83% of all occurrences). Spanning 6 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 21:1. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1393 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 83%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Gibeonites 5×, Gibeonite 2×
- American Standard Version: Gibeonites 5×, Gibeonite 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gibeonites 5×, Gibeonite 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gibeonites 5×, Gibeonite 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1393 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1393 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1393 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1393 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Gibeonite = "little hill: hilly"
- an inhabitant of Gibeon
Word origin
גִּבְעֹנִי adj.gent.—alw. c. art.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גבעון (Gibʻôwn) (H1391) — Gibeon.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1393 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:4 | 2 |
| הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:3 | 1 |
| הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 3:7 | 1 |
| הַ/גִּבְעֹנִֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:1 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֞ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:2 | 1 |
| לַ/גִּבְעֹנִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:2 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
