Bible Location
Meaning: grasshoppers; height · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Gebim was the small place north of Jerusalem whose inhabitants fled before the Assyrian advance. It is important because it appears in Isaiah's vivid march-poem of approaching invasion. First appears in Isa 10:31.1
Place meaning
grasshoppers; height
Coordinates
31.80, 35.25
First appears
Isa 10:31
AI summary: Gebim matters because Isaiah's prophecy builds fear through a sequence of real places drawing nearer to Jerusalem. The village belongs to that tightening geography of alarm.1
Place meaning
grasshoppers; height
Latitude
31.80
Longitude
35.25
Bible references
1
Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-Isawiyeh. 3
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| Book | Cross-References |
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| Isa |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.