Bible Names

Gaash: meaning of the name

Gaash means “tempest; commotion.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Gaash in Hebrew and Greek

גַּעַשׁ H1608

Gaʻash (ga'-ash) — Gaash, a hill in Palestine

from H1607 (גָּעַשׁ); a quaking;

Places named Gaash

Gaash in Scripture

“Gaash” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 24:30

    And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

  • Judges 2:9

    And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

  • 2 Samuel 23:30

    Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

  • 1 Chronicles 11:32

    Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,