GILEAD, 1. A region east of the Jordan River allotted to the tribes of
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of GILEAD, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of GILEAD.