giv.o.ni identifies a person or people as Gibeonites, named individually or as a group in Scripture.

The term is used as a gentilic designation: most often for the Gibeonites addressed as a people in the account of David and Saul, and also for individual men identified as Gibeonites.

1. Gibeonite identity, collective or individual · dominant

   The plural form identifies the Gibeonites as the group affected by Saul's actions and later addressed by David in 2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 21:2, 2 Samuel 21:3, 2 Samuel 21:4, and 2 Samuel 21:9; in 2 Samuel 21:2 the APB renders the clause, "The Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel." The singular form identifies Ishmaiah and Melatiah individually in 1 Chronicles 12:4 and Nehemiah 3:7, where the APB calls each "the Gibeonite."

   2 Samuel 21:12 Samuel 21:22 Samuel 21:32 Samuel 21:42 Samuel 21:91 Chronicles 12:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the plural forms as "the Gibeonites" and the singular forms as "the Gibeonite." These renderings fit the clauses' identification of a people or of individual men.