grasshoppers; height
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
GEBIM.A place N. of Jerusalem (Isa_10:31 only). In Eusebius a Geba 5 Roman miles from Gophna, on the way to Neapolis (Shechem), is noticed. This is the modern Jebîa, which, being near the great northern road, is a possible site for Gebim.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("the ditches".) Isa_10:31. Between Anathoth and Neh.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ge'bim. (grasshoppers). A village north of Jerusalem, Isa_10:31, apparently between Anathoth, (the modern Anata), and the ridge on which Nob was situated.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
gē?bim (גּבים, gēbhı̄m, ?trenches?): A place named only in Isa_10:31. Some would place it at Jebı̄a, identifying it with the Geba of Eusebius, 5 Roman miles from Gophna (modern Jifneh), on the way to Shechem. Its place, however, in the order of names, after Anathoth, seems to point to some position South of that village, to the Northeast of Jerusalem.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Gebim
(Heb. Gebm', גֵּבַים, cisterns [as in Jer_14:3, "pits"], or locusts [as in Isa_33:4]; Sept. Γιββεϊvς, Vulg. Gabim), a small place a short distance north of Jerusalem, mentioned between Madmenah and Nob, Isa_10:31, where its inhabitants are prophetically described as fleeing at the approach of the invading Assyrian army. Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Γεβενά, Gebin) identify it with "Geba, a village five miles from Guphna towards Neapolis;" and Schwarz (Palaest. page 131) identifies it with the Gob of 2Sa_21:18); but both these are at variance with the order of the places named by the prophet. The associated hocalities require a position corresponding to that of the present El- Isawiyeh, a little village in a valley near the road leading N.E. from Jerusalem (Robinson, Researches, 2:108). SEE NOB. It probably derived its Heb. name from the vicinity of excavations ( הִגֵּבַים= the ditches; comp. 2Ki_3:16).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.