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Gilead

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Gil·e·ad  (gl-d)
A mountainous region of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River in what is now northwest Jordan.
Gilead1
n
(Placename) a historic mountainous region east of the River Jordan, rising over 1200 m (4000 ft.)
Gilead2
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Old Testament a grandson of Manasseh; ancestor of the Coileadites (Numbers 26: 29-30)


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But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
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The night fever over, I looked about for balm to that wound also, and found some nearer home than at Gilead.
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To the eastward lies the Valley of the Jordan and beyond it the mountains of Gilead.
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