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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Giah

It exists in the record only to locate the hill of Ammah, where Joab gave up chasing Abner in the war between the houses of David and Saul. Its site has never been identified.

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First, in plain English

It exists in the record only to locate the hill of Ammah, where Joab gave up chasing Abner in the war between the houses of David and Saul. Its site has never been identified.

Who this is

Giah is named only to fix the location of the hill of Ammah, near which Joab called off his pursuit of Abner during the civil war between the houses of David and Saul (2 Samuel 2:24-28). Nothing more is known of it beyond this one topographical note, and its site has never been identified.

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The word

H1520

Where it is
  • 35.279535
  • 31.841047
Where it appears
  • 2 Samuel 2:24

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