Γάβα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Γάβα, πόλις Γαλιλαίας. Ἰώσηπος πέμπτῳ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Γαβαηνός, ὡς αὐτὸς Ἰώσηπος.

Gaba: a city in Galilaia. Josephus, book 5 in his Judaic Antiquity. The ethnonym is 'Gabaenos', as per Josephus himself.

Text Details

Entry	#1
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 191.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-09
Word count	13
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας · (5,140)
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	(5,143)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Γαλιλαία	Galilee · place
Γαβαηνός	Gabaenos / of Gaba · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	a city of Galilee
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnic name is Gabaenos, as Josephus himself says (5.143)

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.252

char LCS 52 (62.7%) · word LCS 7 (53.8%)

Stephanos

Γάβα, πόλις Γαλιλαίας. Ἰώσηπος πέμπτῳ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Γαβαηνός, ὡς αὐτὸς Ἰώσηπος.

Herodian

…Ἰουδαίας. Ἰώσηπος ἕκτῳ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας ( 12, 1 et 4). Κύρβα πόλις Κρήτης ἡ ὕστερον Ἱεράπυτνα, Ὕβα δῆμος τῆς Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. τινὲς δὲ τὸν δῆμον Ὑβάδαι λέγουσι. Δόλβα πόλις τῆς Ἀδιαβηνῆς. Ἀρριανὸς γʹ Παρθικῶν. Γάβα πόλις Γαλιλαίας. Ἰώσηπος πέμπτῳ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας (c. 2). Γάββα πόλις Συρίας. Θίβα μία τῶν Ἀμαζόνων ὑφ´ Ἡρακλέους ἀναιρεθεισῶν, ὅθεν ἐκλήθη Θιβαΐς τόπος πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἄρυββα. Ἀνάζαρβα πόλις Κιλικίας. Σίσυρβα Ἀμαζὼν καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτῆς μέρος Ἐφέσου. * Τὰ εἰς 'γα' βαρύνεται, …