Bible Names

Gideon: meaning of the name

Gideon means “he that bruises or breaks; a destroyer.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gideon in Hebrew and Greek

גִּדְעוֹן H1439

Gidʻôwn (ghid-ohn') — Gidon, an Israelite

from H1438 (גָּדַע); feller (i.e. warrior);

Who named Gideon in the Bible

Gideon in Scripture

“Gideon” appears in 37 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Judges 6:11

    And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

  • Judges 6:13

    And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

  • Judges 6:19

    And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

  • Judges 6:22

    And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

  • Judges 6:24

    Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

  • Judges 6:27

    Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

  • Judges 6:29

    And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.

  • Judges 6:34

    But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him.