# H1533 גִּלְבֹּעַ

גִּלְבֹּעַ (Gilbôaʻ), Strong’s H1533: Gilboa, a mountain of Palestine KJV: Gilboa.. Occurs 8 times.

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*Gilbôaʻ* — Gilboa, a mountain of Palestine

KJV: Gilboa.

Built from [גַּל gal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1530) (something rolled) + [בָּעָה bâʻâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1158) (to gush over, i.e. to swell) — means “fountain of ebullition”

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גִּלְבֹּעַ n.pr.loc. Gilboa‛ (derivation unknown), mountain-ridge at S.E. end of plain of Jezreel, where Saul & Jonathan were killed

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 28:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/28?v=4) — The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together…
- [1 Samuel 31:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/31?v=1) — Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain…
- [1 Samuel 31:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/31?v=8) — On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount…
- [2 Samuel 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=6) — The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and…
- [2 Samuel 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/1?v=21) — You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the…
- [2 Samuel 21:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/21?v=12) — So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had…
- [1 Chronicles 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/10?v=1) — Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain…
- [1 Chronicles 10:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/10?v=8) — On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.