Gideon
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See also: GIDEON
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gideon
- A warrior judge of Israel mentioned in the book of Judges.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.
- A male given name from Hebrew, popularized by Puritans.
- An English surname originating as a patronymic.
- A city in Missouri, United States; named for lumber businessman Frank Gideon.
- A census-designated place in Oklahoma, United States.
Translations[edit]
biblical character
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male given name
Noun[edit]
Gideon (plural Gideons)
- (Christianity) A member of Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association, founded in 1899, that distributes free copies of the Bible.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (“smasher, feller”), perhaps influenced by Latin Gedeon, from Ancient Greek Γεδεων (Gedeōn).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gideon m
- Gideon (biblical character)
- a male given name
Derived terms[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Biblical Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gideon
- Gideon (biblical character)
- (rare) a male given name
- The letter G in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Gideon (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Gideon | Gideonit | ||
genitive | Gideonin | Gideonien | ||
partitive | Gideonia | Gideoneja | ||
illative | Gideoniin | Gideoneihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Gideon | Gideonit | ||
accusative | nom. | Gideon | Gideonit | |
gen. | Gideonin | |||
genitive | Gideonin | Gideonien | ||
partitive | Gideonia | Gideoneja | ||
inessive | Gideonissa | Gideoneissa | ||
elative | Gideonista | Gideoneista | ||
illative | Gideoniin | Gideoneihin | ||
adessive | Gideonilla | Gideoneilla | ||
ablative | Gideonilta | Gideoneilta | ||
allative | Gideonille | Gideoneille | ||
essive | Gideonina | Gideoneina | ||
translative | Gideoniksi | Gideoneiksi | ||
abessive | Gideonitta | Gideoneitta | ||
instructive | — | Gideonein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- The given name Gideon belongs to 31 male individuals (and as a middle name to 165 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
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