גִּבְעָה givah

Hebrew word for “hill” · Strong’s H1389 · used 68 times in 68 verses

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Meaning

1) hill; 1a) hill (lower than a mountain); 1b) as a place of illicit worship; 1c) poetic for mountain; 1d) used in place names

Senses in the lexicon

• hill (67)
• Gibeath-(haaraloth) (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for givah in context, with how often each is used:

• hills 37
• hill 29
• more than the hills 2

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 17 (2), 1 Samuel 26 (2), 2 Samuel 2 (2), 2 Samuel 6 (2), Psalms 114 (2), Isaiah 2 (2), Isaiah 30 (2), Isaiah 40 (2), Ezekiel 6 (2), Ezekiel 34 (2)

Forms

• גבעה 11
• הגבעות 10
• גבעות 10
• גבעת 6
• וגבעות 4
• והגבעות 4
• ולגבעות 4
• הגבעה 3
• בגבעה 3
• בגבעת 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with givah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• הַר har “mountain” 38
• רַעֲנָן raanan “luxuriant” 8
• עֵץ ets “tree” 11
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 11
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 11
• אָפִיק aphiq “channel” 5
• גָּבֹהַּ gavoah “high” 5
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 8
• גַּיְא gay “valley” 5
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 5
• חֲכִילָה chakhilah “Hachilah” 3
• רוּם rum “to exalt” 5

Key verses

The verses using givah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above…
• Isaiah 55:12 — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the…
• Jeremiah 2:20 — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou…
• Jeremiah 3:23 — Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Jeremiah 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!…
• Jeremiah 50:6 — My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to…
• Ezekiel 20:28 — For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and…
• Ezekiel 34:26 — And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Hosea 10:8 — The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the…
• Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be…
• Nahum 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
• Habakkuk 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways…

See all 68 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.