Gideon
Americannoun
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Also called Jerubbaal. (in the Bible) a judge of ancient Israel and conqueror of the Midianites.
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a member of the Gideons International, a society founded in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
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a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “great destroyer.”
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Messages sent to email addresses associated with Gideon went unreturned, and several phone numbers listed for him were out of service.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
In an X post on Wednesday, he said Colombia and Israel would share a relationship "like never before" after speaking with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026
Lisa Savage, the Green-aligned independent candidate, earned 5 percent of the vote, and was instructing her supporters to rank Gideon second.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026
There are about three million legally held firearms in South Africa and at least the same number of unlicensed weapons, according to statistics cited by Gideon Joubert from the South African Gunowners' Association.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
All the weeks of feeling like Gideon had abandoned me.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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