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gilead
/ɡɪˈlid/
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What does gilead mean?
proper noun
- A region east of the Jordan river.
- A male given name from Hebrew in occasional use.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- (derogatory) An illiberal and oppressive place, especially on matters related to women's rights, reproduction, or sex (from the theocratic dystopia in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale).
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɪˈlid/
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But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
“My garden was all smashed flat,” he continued mournfully, “but so was Dora’s,” he added in a tone which indicated that there was yet balm in Gilead.
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It was mournful enough to encounter you for the only time in this world in this plight, and to have this glimpse of your wretched life on lonesome Gilead Hill.
Jacob departed and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward Gilead, for the holy spirit revealed to him that God would bring help there to his children in the days of Jephthah.
And of Saul, upon the newes of the insolence of the Ammonites towards the men of Jabeth Gilead, it is said (1 Sam.11.6.) that "The Spirit of God came upon Saul, and his Anger (or, as it is in the Latine, His Fury) was kindled greatly."