Difference between revisions of "Gederah"

<p> <strong> GEDERAH </strong> . AV [Note: Authorized Version.] of &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 4:23 b reads, ‘Those that dwell among plants (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘plantations’) and hedges,’ but RV [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘the inhabitants of [[Netaim]] and Gederah,’ and this is probably the correct rendering. In that case the [[Gederah]] referred to would probably be the city of that name located by &nbsp; Joshua 15:36 in the Shephçlah, the modern <em> Jedireh </em> and the <em> Gedour </em> of Eusebius. The gentilic name <strong> [[Gederathite]] </strong> occurs in &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 12:4 . </p>

<p> ("the sheepcote".) A town of Judah in the '''''Shephelah''''' , or hills between the mountains and plain (&nbsp;Joshua 15:36). Near the "valley of the terebinth", near [[Azekah]] and Socoh. (See [[Elah]] .) [[Gederoth]] "sheepcotes", and [[Gederothaim]] "two sheepcotes", were in the same region (&nbsp;Joshua 15:41). </p>

<p> (Heb. with the article hag-Gederah', '''''הִגְּדֵרָה''''' , ''The Fortress'' or [[Sheep-Cote]] (See Geder); Sept. '''''Γαδηρα''''' ) '','' a town in the [[Shephelah]] or plain of Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:36, where it is mentioned Uetween [[Adithaim]] and Gederothaim [q.v.]). According to [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] ''(Onomast.'' s.v. '''''Γάδειρα''''' , Gaddera), it was still a village ( '''''Γέδορα''''' '', Gadora)'' near [[Jerusalem]] "around the Terebinth," an expression which Raumur ''(Palast.'' page 193) interprets of the valley of Elah or the terebinth (&nbsp;1 Samuel 17:1); although Keil (on Joshua, ad loc.) shows that it means the wood of Mamre, near Hebron, and Reland had pointed out that this was in the mountains and not the lowlands of Judah (Palest. page 802). [[Van]] de Velde has identified the site with that of "Gheterah or Ghederah, a village on the south banks of wady Surar, near the high road from Ramleh to Ghuzzeh" (Memoir, page 313); a position exactly agreeing with that of the Cedes ( '''''Κέδους''''' , Jerome ''Gedrus),'' described by Eusebius ''(Ononast.'' s.v. '''''Γεδούρ''''' , Jerome ''Gaedur)'' as a very large village ten miles from Diospolis (Lydda) towards [[Eleutheropolis]] (Beit-Jibrin). The inhabitants seem to be those designated as ''Gederites'' (q.v.) in &nbsp;1 Chronicles 27:28 (comp. 4:23, "hedges"). </p>