with recesses in the sides for bodies...The present inhabitants of Um-Keis
are all troglodytes, ‘dwelling in tombs,’ like the poor maniacs of old, and
occasionally they are almost as dangerous to unprotected travellers.”
- GADARENES the inhabitants of Gadara, in Revised Version “Gerasenes”
(Mark 5:1; Luke 8:26, 37). In Matthew 8:28 they are called Gergesenes,
Revised Version “Gadarenes.” - GADDI fortunate, the representative of the tribe of Manasseh among the
twelve “spies” sent by Moses to spy the land (Numbers 13:11). - GADDIEL fortune (i.e., sent) of God, the representative of the tribe of
Zebulum among the twelve spies (Numbers 13:10). - GAHAR lurking-place, one of the chief of the Nethinim, whose
descendants returned to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:47). - GAIUS (1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at
Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his
household were baptized by Paul (1 Corinthians 1:14). During a heathen
outbreak against Paul at Ephesus the mob seized Gaius and Aristarchus
because they could not find Paul, and rushed with them into the theatre.
Some have identified this Gaius with No. (2).
(2.) A man of Derbe who accompanied Paul into Asia on his last journey
to Jerusalem
(3.) A Christain of Asia Minor to whom John addressed his third epistle
(3 John 1:1).