Gilead

American  

[gil-ee-uhd] / ˈgɪl i əd /

noun

1. a district of ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan River, in present N Jordan.

2. Mount, a mountain in NW Jordan. 3,596 feet (1,096 meters).

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Gilead ¹ British  

/ ˈɡɪlɪˌæd /

noun

1. a historic mountainous region east of the River Jordan, rising over 1200 m (4000 ft)

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Gilead ² British  

/ ˈɡɪlɪˌæd /

noun

1. Old Testament a grandson of Manasseh; ancestor of the Coileadites (Numbers 26: 29–30)

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Gilead

That lower price still would have allowed Gilead to reap a great financial return while giving more people access to treatment.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Gilead had the reverse problem with its twice-a-year HIV shot, which it would never sell at American prices in the world’s poorest countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

AstraZeneca and Gilead have found promising new options for one of the most aggressive and hardest-to-treat forms of breast cancer after decades with few breakthroughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

In Scripture, Gilead is a place of refuge; so is Marilynne Robinson’s rural 1950s town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Yes, and who remembers the schoolmaster of them early years, him whose final resting place is right outside in the Balm of Gilead graveyard? Who remembers the terrible Increase Whittlesey of blessed memory?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck