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Gideon
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GIDEON
English
Etymology
en he גִּדְעוֹן Gideon gid'ón ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡɪd.i.ən/ US,Canada
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gideon.wav Southern England
en ɪdiən 3
Proper noun
en Q176125en biblical character A warrior judge of Israel mentioned in the book of Judges.
Judges 7 7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
en male Hebrew, popularized by Puritans.
en Elyse Wanshel He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him w:HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/man-mad-over-hipster-photo_n_5c82cf2ae4b08d5b78619034/amp 2019-03-08 “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328123409/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/man-mad-over-hipster-photo_n_5c82cf2ae4b08d5b78619034
en English patronymics.
en city s/Missouri c/US ; named for lumber businessman Frank Gideon.
en CDP s/Oklahoma c/US.
Derived terms
en Gideonic Gideonite
Translations
biblical character
Aghwan: xag 𐔲𐔴𐔳𐔴𐕒𐕎
Arabic: ar جَدْعَوْن m
Armenian: hy
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 基甸 Jīdiàn
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb Jideoni
Dutch: nl Gideon
Esperanto: eo Gideon
Finnish: fi Gideon
French: fr Gédéon
Georgian: ka
Greek:
Ancient Greek: grc Γεδεών m
Hebrew: he גִּדְעוֹן gid'ón
Hindi: hi गिदोन m
Hungarian: hu Gedeon
Italian: it Gedeone
Navajo: nv Gídiyan
Norman: nrf Gudgion m
Portuguese: pt Gideão
Romanian: ro Ghedeon
Russian: ru Гедео́н m
Spanish: es Gedeón
male given name
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 吉迪恩 Jídí'ēn
French: fr Gédéon
Hebrew: he גִּדְעוֹן gid'ón
Hindi: hi गिडियन m
Italian: it Gedeone
Norman: nrf Gudgion m, nrf Gédéon m
Ukrainian: uk Ґедео́н m
Noun
en Christianity A member of Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association, founded in 1899, that distributes free copies of the Bible.
See also
en bible society
Anagrams
en degino doeing
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from nl hbo גִּדְעוֹן smasher, feller, perhaps influenced by nl la Gedeon, from nl grc Γεδεων.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈɣi.deːˌɔn/
nl Nl-Gideon.ogg
nl Gi de on
Proper noun
m
en Gideon biblical character
nl male
Derived terms
nl gideonsbende
nl Biblical characters
Finnish
Etymology
From fi hbo גִּדְעוֹן gid'ón.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gideon biblical character
fi rare fi male
G
Declension
Gideon a 0
Statistics
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References
Anagrams
fi degino dogien
fi Biblical characters