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Gideon

American  
[gid-ee-uhn] / ˈgɪd i ən /

noun

  1. Also called Jerubbaal.  (in the Bible) a judge of ancient Israel and conqueror of the Midianites.

  2. a member of the Gideons International, a society founded in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.

  3. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “great destroyer.”


Gideon British  
/ ˈɡɪdɪən /

noun

  1. Old Testament a Hebrew judge who led the Israelites to victory over their Midianite oppressors (Judges 6:11–8:35)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Only one unfortunate choice mars the whole—the original reproductions of artwork that appear in the original Russian editions are replaced by lovely but abstract images by Gideon Bosker designed to evoke the text.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Tuesday that his country was "ready to move forward implementing these two pilot zones".

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Messages sent to email addresses associated with Gideon went unreturned, and several phone numbers listed for him were out of service.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

Earlier this year Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar made an official visit to Somaliland's capital, Hargeisa.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

I believe Gideon himself might have looked there if he hadn’t been trying to raise a daughter on the road.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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