A dictionary of the . own, farther up the Mount ofOlives. GEUEL {majesty of God), the spyfrom the trihe of Gad. Num. 13 : 15. GEZER {steep place), called alsoGAZER, GAZARA, GAZERA,and GAD, a royal city of Canaan, andone of the oldest cities of the land. :33; 12:12. Gezerwasin Ephraim ;given to Kohath, Josh. 21:21; 1 :67; noticed in the wars of David,1 Sam. 27 : 8 ; 2 Sam. 5 : 25 ; 1 Chr. 20:4 ; burned by Pharaoh in Solomonsdays, 1 Kgs. 9:15-17; given to Solo-mons Egyptian wife, and rebuilt byhim ; was an important city in the timeof the Maccabees. M. Ganneau, froma hint giv
A dictionary of the . own, farther up the Mount ofOlives. GEUEL {majesty of God), the spyfrom the trihe of Gad. Num. 13 : 15. GEZER {steep place), called alsoGAZER, GAZARA, GAZERA,and GAD, a royal city of Canaan, andone of the oldest cities of the land. :33; 12:12. Gezerwasin Ephraim ;given to Kohath, Josh. 21:21; 1 :67; noticed in the wars of David,1 Sam. 27 : 8 ; 2 Sam. 5 : 25 ; 1 Chr. 20:4 ; burned by Pharaoh in Solomonsdays, 1 Kgs. 9:15-17; given to Solo-mons Egyptian wife, and rebuilt byhim ; was an important city in the timeof the Maccabees. M. Ganneau, froma hint given by an old Arab chronicler,has identified Gezer with Tell el-Jezer,4 miles from Nicopolis. Numerous ruinswere found, indicating a city of import-ance, and inscriptions in Greek andsquare Hebrew characters giving thename and noting the boundaries of theLevitical city—a discovery of great im-portance, being the only one of its kindas vet brought to light. GEZRITES {dwellers in a barrenland), a tribe in the time of Saul, who. GHO GIB shared with the Geshurites and Amalek-ites the land between the south of Pal-estine and Egypt, 1 Sam. 27 : 8. Thename is properly Gerzites, and they oncedwelt in central Palestine, as is provenby the name of Mount Gerizim. GHOST. Gen. 25: 8. To give upthe ghost means to expire. Ghostis used by Shakespeare and other Eng-lish writers as synonymous with words in Matt. 27: 50 would bebetter translated : Christ gave up hisspirit. Holy Ghost. The third person inthe Holy Trinity. See God, Spirit. GIAH (a breaking forth; here, awaterfall), near the hill Arumah, 2 :24. GIANT denotes men of extraordi-nary size or height. Gen. 6 : 4. The sonsof Anak are usually looked upon as gi-ants, on account of the expression ofwhich the spies made use—that they were as grasshoppers ... in their 13 : 33. The fright of the Israelitesmakes it probable that they were refer-ring to strength rather than stature. Theking of Bashan, Deut. 3:11, and
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