ge.va is a proper name for a place named in territorial, residential, military, and geographic settings.

The attested form is consistently a proper name for a place: it occurs in city and territorial lists, as a place of dwelling, in accounts involving military movement or action, and as a point marking geographic extent.

1. Place name in geographic and narrative settings · dominant

   Every supplied token is tagged Noun · Proper and identifies the same kind of referent, a named place. In Joshua 18:24 the APB renders it within a list of cities, while 1 Samuel 13:3 places a Philistine garrison there; 2 Kings 23:8 and Zechariah 14:10 use it as one endpoint in a stated geographic extent.

   Joshua 18:241 Samuel 13:31 Samuel 13:162 Kings 23:8Nehemiah 11:31Zechariah 14:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally presents the proper name as "Geba," including in city lists, residence notices, military accounts, and boundary statements. These renderings confirm the verse-level place reference rather than supplying a separate lexical definition.