Bible Location
Meaning: a hill · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
This Gibeah entry refers to the Ephraimite hill associated with Phinehas and Eleazar's burial, not the better-known Gibeah of Benjamin linked with Saul. It is important because it preserves a distinct priestly and burial association within the hill country. First appears in Josh 15:57.1
AI summary: Most readers think first of Gibeah of Saul when they see the name Gibeah, but this entry points elsewhere. Its references connect the place with the hill-country setting of Ephraim and with the burial memory of Eleazar, giving it a priestly and ancestral significance rather than a royal or civil-war one. That makes it a quieter but still meaningful location in Israel's landscape of remembrance. The cross references present this Gibeah as a distinct hill site tied to inheritance and burial rather than to Benjamin's later political history.1
(Josh. 15:57, R.V. marg.), a city on Mount Ephraim which had been given to Phinehas (24:33 “hill,” A.V.; R.V. marg. and Heb., “Gibeah.”). Here Eleazar the son of Aaron was buried. It has been identified with the modern Khurbet Jibia, 5 miles north of Guphna towards Shechem. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.