Bible Names

Gilead: meaning of the name

Gilead means “the heap or mass of testimony.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gilead in Hebrew and Greek

גִּלְעָד H1568

Gilʻâd (ghil-awd') — Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites

probably from H1567 (גַּלְעֵד);

People named Gilead in the Bible

Places named Gilead

Gilead in Scripture

“Gilead” appears in 93 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 31:21

    So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

  • Genesis 31:23

    And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

  • Genesis 31:25

    Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

  • Genesis 37:25

    And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

  • Numbers 26:29

    Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

  • Numbers 26:30

    These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

  • Numbers 27:1

    Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Numbers 32:1

    Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;