- גבעה
- גִּבְעָהf. (b. h.; גבע) 1) hill. Lev. R. s. 10 כמין ג׳ like a hill (the bullock between the two rams). Cant. R. to IV, 6 עשה ערלותיהן ג׳ he piled up their preputia; Gen. R. s. 47 העמידן גִבְעַת ערלות; a. e.Pl. גְּבָעוֹת. Ḥag.15a ברא הרים ברא ג׳ He created mountains, and (corresponding to them) hills. Taan.8b (ref. to Job 37:13) אם לשבט בהרים וג׳ if He sends rain as a scourge, He sends it on mountains and hills. Ab. Zar.17a הרים וג׳ ye mountains and hills! Sot.5a; a. fr. 2) pr. n. pl. Gibeah. Gitt.6b עסיק בפלגש ג׳ studying the case of the woman murdered in Gibeah (Jud. 19 sq.). Pesik. R. s. 11 בפלגש בג׳ in the war about the woman of G.; a. e.Shebu.35b שמות האמורין בג׳ Rashi (ed. בגִבְעַת בִּנְיָמִין) the names (Adonai, El ) used in the chapter about Gibeah (Jud. 20).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.