Region in ancient Palestine

Usage examples of gilead.

Of pines, the white spruce is the most common here: the red and black spruce, the balsam of Gilead fir, and Banksian pine, also occur frequently.

If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.

The opposition's diversion had worked, perfectly -- but for Gilead, not for them, There was a short queue at the addressing machine.

Henchick of the Manni and Roland of Gilead nooned in the shadow of a massive rock outcrop, eating cold chicken and rice wrapped in tortillas and drinking sof cider from a jug which they passed back and forth between them.

Henchick of the Manni and Roland of Gilead nooned in the shadow of a massive rock outcrop, eating cold chicken and rice wrapped in tortillas and drinking sof’.

When Justin Gilead did not show up by eleven to make his first move, the referee would turn the clock off and award the game to Zharkov by default.

The soft singing of the bugs, like crickets in the grass at the end of day back home in Gilead, hesitated and broke rhythm.

But Gilead of Wommack was not interested in their costumes, not even in the Farson brothers’ strange acceptance of the Traveller black instead of the red, gold, and silver that was rightfully theirs by birth.

Nearly everyone who had ever be friended Justin Gilead had been destroyed.

The billy-bumbler wasn't wearing little red booties and Jake wasn't wearing the red Oxfords (thank God), but this was still very like their visit to Roland's Gilead, which they had reached by traveling in the pink Wizard's Glass.

Next day about the third hour, out of the pass through which, skirting the base of Mount Gilead, they had journeyed since leaving Ramoth, the party came upon the barren steppe east of the sacred river.

I described her driving around her hometown of Dansky, Ohio-which lies between Marion and Shanck, close to Mount Gilead.

Thy hair is as a flock of goats that lie along the side of Mount Gilead.

My next stop Saturday morning, after Naomi's, was the Mount Gilead Christian Church near Gallaudet University.

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep on Mount Gilead, and thy cheeks are comely.