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Gibeath-Phinehas

GIBEATH-PHINEHAS, a City situated in the Mountains of Ephraim, which was given upon the division of the lands to Phinehas the son of Eleazar; this was the place where the High-Priest Eleazar was buried1. Josh. xxiv. ult.

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  1. Translators’ note. This place in our English translation is called the Hill that pertained to Phinehas. In the Hebrew it is ,פינחם בגבעתwhich the Septuagint translate Γαβαὰρ, or, as some Copies have it, Γαβαὰθ, or Γαβὰθ φινεές. ↩

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