- GIRGASHITE dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of
Canaan (Genesis 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of
Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Genesis 15:21; Deuteronomy 7:1).
They were a branch of the great family of the Hivites. Of their
geographical position nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived
somewhere in the central part of Western Palestine. - GITTAH-HEPHER (Joshua 19:13). See GATH-HEPHER.
- GITTAIM two wine-presses, (2 Samuel 4:3; Nehemiah 11:33), a town
probably in Benjamin to which the Beerothites fled. - GITTITE a native of the Philistine city of Gath (Joshua 13:3). Obed-edom,
in whose house the ark was placed, is so designated (2 Samuel 6:10). Six
hundred Gittites came with David from Gath into Israel (15:18, 19). - GITTITH a stringed instrument of music. This word is found in the titles
of Psalm 8, 81, 84. In these places the LXX. render the word by “on the
wine-fats.” The Targum explains by “on the harp which David brought
from Gath.” It is the only stringed instrument named in the titles of the
Psalms. - GIZONITE a name given to Hashem, an inhabitant of Gizoh, a place
somewhere in the mountains of Judah (1 Chronicles 11:34; 2 Samuel 23:32,
34). - GLASS was known to the Egyptians at a very early period of their
national history, at least B.C. 1500. Various articles both useful and
ornamental were made of it, as bottles, vases, etc. A glass bottle with the
name of Sargon on it was found among the ruins of the north-west palace
of Nimroud. The Hebrew word zekukith (Job 28:17), rendered in the
Authorized Version “crystal,” is rightly rendered in the Revised Version
“glass.” This is the only allusion to glass found in the Old Testament. It is
referred to in the New Testament in Revelation 4:6; 15:2; 21:18, 21. In Job
37:18, the word rendered “looking-glass” is in the Revised Version
properly rendered “mirror,” formed, i.e., of some metal. (Comp. Exodus
38:8: “looking-glasses” are brazen mirrors, R.V.). A mirror is referred to
also in James 1:23. - GLEAN The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf
accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according to the law
of Moses (Leviticus 19:9; 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:21). They were to be
kiana
(Kiana)
#1