Encyclopedia of The Bible – Maareh-Geba
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Maareh-Geba

MAAREH-GEBA mā’ ə re gē’ bă (מַֽעֲרֵה־גָֽבַע). A place where the men of Israel lay in ambush and from which they rushed forth to attack the Benjamites for an abhorrent moral deed they had committed (Judg 20:33). The KJV has “the meadows of Gibeah”; ASVmg., “the meadow of Geba” (or Gibeah); RSV, “west of Geba”; ASV has “Maareh-geba.”