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GILEAD

(Heb. gilʿāḏ)

(PERSON)

1. The son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh; eponym of the tribe and territory of Gilead (Num. 26:29-30; 27:1; 36:1; 1 Chr. 2:21, 23; 7:14, 17). Gilead remained in Transjordan rather than join Deborah and Barak against Sisera (Judg. 5:17); some scholars suggest that this reflects political instability within the tribe at that time and that the tribe of Gilead was supplanted by Gad.

2. The father of the illegitimate warrior Jephthah, who judged Gilead at the time of the Ammonite invasion (Judg. 11:1-2, 8, 11). The name may be a patronymic.

3. The eponymous ancestor of a Gadite clan (1 Chr. 5:14).






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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