Gezer: meaning of the name

Gezer in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Gezer

• Gezer

Gezer in Scripture

“Gezer” appears in 12 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

• Joshua 12:12

  The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

• Joshua 16:3

  And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth–horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

• Joshua 16:10

  And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

• Joshua 21:21

  For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

• Judges 1:29

  Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

• 1 Kings 9:15

  And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:16

  For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.