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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Her faith was as of that nameless daughter of the Gileadite; and she could not yield.
From The Sky Line of Spruce by Marshall, Edison
So it became a custom in Israel: each year the women of Israel go out for four days to bewail the death of the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite.
From The Children's Bible by Sherman, Henry A.
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 fancied, a disturbing similarity between the two cases.
From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold
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
I do not wonder that Barzillai, the wealthy Gileadite, lived to be eighty, for he stood in the perpetual sunshine of his beneficence.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
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