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Matthew George Easton
Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition (1897) · 3,964 entries on site
A wall. (1.) A city in the mountains or hill country of Judah ( Josh. 15:58 ), identified with Jedar, between Jerusalem and Hebron. (2.) 1 Chr. 4:39 , the Gederah of Josh. 15:36 , or the well-known Gerar, as the LXX. read, where the patriarchs of old had sojourned and fed their flocks ( Gen. 20:1 , 14 , 15 ; 26:1, 6, 14). (3.) A town apparently in Benjamin ( 1 Chr. 12:7 ), the same probably as Geder ( Josh. 12:13 ).
A region; lodging-place, a very ancient town and district in the south border of Palestine, which was ruled over by a king named Abimelech ( Gen. 10:19 ; 20:1 , 2 ). Abraham sojourned here, and perhaps Isaac was born in this place. Both of these patriarchs were guilty of the sin of here denying their wives, and both of them entered into a treaty with the king before they departed to Beersheba (21:23-34; 26). It seems to have been a rich pastoral country ( 2 Chr. 14:12-18 ). Isaac here reaped an hundred-fold, and was blessed of God ( Gen. 26:12 ). The “valley of Gerar” ( Gen. 26:17 ) was probably the modern Wady el-Jerdr.
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