Gilead (disambiguation)
Gilead (Hebrew: גלעד) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.
Gilead may also refer to:
Places
Australia
- Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
United States
- Gilead, Connecticut, a village in the town of Hebron
- Gilead, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Gilead, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Gilead, Iowa, an unincorporated community
- Gilead, Maine, a town
- Former Gilead Railroad Station, Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Gilead Township, Michigan
- Gilead, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Gilead, Nebraska, a village
- Lake Gilead, New York, a reservoir
- Gilead Township, Morrow County, Ohio
People with the name
- Gilead Sher (born 1953), Israeli attorney, government official and peace negotiator
- Gilead J. Wilmot (1834–?), American politician
Arts and entertainment
- Gil'ead, a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon
- Gilead, the fictional birthplace of Roland Deschain in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels
- Republic of Gilead, the fictional theocratic nation in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
- Gilead (novel), a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
- Gilead, a novelette by Zenna Henderson in her Ingathering series
Other uses
- Gilead Sciences, an American biopharmaceutical company based in California
- Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary training program in New York state, aka the Gilead School
- Gilead (tribal group), mentioned in the Bible
- Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon
See also
- Mount Gilead (disambiguation)
- Ghilad, a commune in Timiș County, Romania
- Gilad (disambiguation)
- Balm of Gilead (disambiguation)
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