Γέβαλα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Γέβαλα, τρίτη μοῖρα τῆς Παλαιστίνης. Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Γεβαληνός ὡς Δαρηνός Ἀδαρηνός. Γεβαληνή τε καὶ Ἀμαληκῖτις ἡ τῶν Ἰδουμαίων χώρα μετωνομάσθη.

Gebala: a third region of Palaistine. Josephos. The ethnonym is 'Gebalenos', as in 'Darenos' and 'Adarenos'. The territory of the Idoumaioi was renamed both 'Gebalene' and 'Amalekitis'.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#42
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 200.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-10
Word count	21
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	AJ 6,95

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Γέβαλα	Gebala · place
Τρίτη Παλαιστίνη	Third Palestine · place
Γεβαληνός	Gebelite (of Gebala) · people
Δαρηνός	Darenian · people
Ἀδαρηνός	Adarenian · people
Γεβαληνή	Gebelene (the Gebala region) · place
Ἀμαληκῖτις	Amalekitis (land of the Amalekites) · place
Ἰδουμαῖοι	Idumaeans · people
Γέβαλα	place · explicit · pleiades: 246405 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name is Gebalēnos, formed on the pattern of Darēnos and Adarēnos (i.e., with the same type of ethnic-name formation).
Unclear Metalinguistic	The land of the Idumaeans was renamed Gebalēnē and Amalēkitis.

Links

Place links	Edom \| 📍 Map
Page scans	vol1_486.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	μοῖρα ἡ gloss:f14779ed84e09347	region or part (in geographic contexts); district (in urban contexts only) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.