GIDEON

GIDEON

Lehite PN & GN	1. Patriot, captain, from city of NEPHI, ca. 2nd century BC (Mosiah 19:4;      
		Alma 14:16
		2. City and land, ca. 1st century B.C. (Alma 6:7; Helaman 13:15)
		3. Valley, ca. 1st century BC (Alma 2:20; 6:8)

Hebrew gid‘ôn “Iconoclast, Destroyer, Slasher. Hacker, Hewer” (Judges 6:11 – 8:35), which is the alternate name of Jeruba‘al.50 


50 Albright, YGC, 199 n. 101; R. Boling, “Gideon,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1013-1015.