manly, strong
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
GEBER (1Ki_4:19).One of Solomons twelve commissariat officers, whose district lay to the E. of Jordan. At the end of 1Ki_4:19 comes a sentence referred by AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] to this Geber, and rendered and he was the only officer which was in the land. But it is possible that the text should be emended so as to read and one officer was over all the officers who were in the land, the reference being, not to Geber, but to Azariah, son of Nathan, mentioned in v. 6 as over the officers.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ge'ber. (manly).
1. The son of Geber resided in the fortress of Ramoth-gilead, and had charge of Havoth-jair and the district of Argob. 1Ki_4:13. (B.C. 1013).
2. Geber, the son of Uri, had a district south of the former ? the "land of Gilead." 1Ki_4:19.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
gē?bẽr (גּבר, gebher, ?man,? ?strong one?):
(1) According to 1Ki_4:13 the King James Version the father of one of the 12 officers who provided food for Solomon and his household (but here the Revised Version (British and American) ?Ben-geber?). His district lay to the Northeast of Jordan.
(2) Another, and the last in the list of Solomon's commissariat officers (1Ki_4:19). His district was also east of the Jordan, but probably to the South of that named in connection with the official of Jam_4:13 (the Revised Version (British and American) ?Ben-geber?). According to the rendering of English Versions of the Bible, he is said to have been ?the only officer that was in the land.? Unless the text, which presents some difficulties, is corrupt, as some suppose, it probably means that this large region was assigned to one official because less able than the others to furnish the required supplies.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Geber
(Heb. id. גֶּבֶר, a valiant man, as often Sept. Γάβηρ, Josephus Γαβάρης, Ant. 8:2, 3), the son of Uri, and one of Solomon's purveyors, having sole (i.e. supreme) jurisdiction (נְצַיב) over Gilead (1Ki_4:19); from which fact he appears to be the same as BEN-GEBAR ("son of Geber") mentioned is 1Ki_4:13 as having charge of the same region, unless, indeed, the latter were a deputy or assistant to his father. B.C. 1013. SEE EZION- GEBER.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.