# H1568 גִּלְעָד

גִּלְעָד (Gilʻâd), Strong’s H1568: Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites KJV: Gilead, Gileadite.. Occurs 134 times.

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*Gilʻâd* — Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites

KJV: Gilead, Gileadite.

Derived from [גַּלְעֵד Galʻêd](https://besorah.bible/word/H1567) (Galed, a memorial cairn East of the Jordan)

Occurs 134 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גִּלְעָד n.pr.loc. of mountain-range or hill-country, land & city, E. of Jordan
- 1 territory S. of Jabboḳ
- 2 Northern Gilead
- 3 more generally, of all Gilead
- 4 name of a city
- 5 of Israelites living E. of Jordan (as a whole)
- 6 treated as n.pr.m.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=21) — So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
- [Genesis 31:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=23) — He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- [Genesis 31:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=25) — Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in…
- [Genesis 37:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=25) — They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from…
- [Numbers 26:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=29) — The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the…
- [Numbers 26:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/26?v=30) — These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
- [Numbers 27:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/27?v=1) — Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the…
- [Numbers 32:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=1) — Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer…
- [Numbers 32:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=26) — Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
- [Numbers 32:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=29) — Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man…