Gileadite
Americannoun
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a member of a branch of the Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh.
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an inhabitant of ancient Gilead.
noun
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an inhabitant of the region of Gilead
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a descendant of Gilead (the man)
Etymology
Origin of Gileadite
Example Sentences
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It was likewise a custom among this singular people, that the young women "went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four days in a year."
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell
It was a custom in Israel, 11:40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
From The World English Bible (WEB): Judges by Anonymous
And it was a custom in Israel, 07:011:040 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
From The Bible, King James version, Book 7: Judges by Anonymous
Her brother’s career was threatened by the results of his own imprudence, and though her father could hardly be compared with the Gileadite warrior, there was, Vane imagined, a disturbing similarity between the two cases.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
“Well, look up the daughter of the warrior Gileadite, and fair Rosamond, and angered Eleanor, and Fulvia, and Joan of Arc.”
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater
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