GIDEON
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| 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.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Albright, YGC, 199 n. 101; R. Boling, “Gideon,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1013-1015.
