- Gibeah of Judah
- (Josh. 15:57), a city in the mountains of Judah, the modern Jeba, on a hill in the Wady Musurr, about 7 1/2 miles west-south-west of Bethlehem.
Easton's Bible Dictionary. M.G. Easton. 1897.
Gibeah of Judah
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