Gebim

Gebim (meaning: grasshoppers; height) was a settlement in the territory of Benjamin mentioned in Isaiah's poetic account of the Assyrian army's advance on Jerusalem (Isaiah 10:31). In this passage Isaiah traces the progress of the Assyrian forces through a series of Benjaminite towns north of Jerusalem — Aiath, Migron, Michmash, Geba — as they approach the city in a dramatic poetic depiction of the coming invasion. Gebim appears as one of the towns that flees before the advance.

Gebim's precise location has not been confirmed, and it is not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament. It was likely a small village in the Benjaminite hill country north of Jerusalem, now unidentifiable without archaeological corroboration. Isaiah's use of specific place names in this passage gives the oracle a concrete geographic immediacy — the reader is meant to trace the Assyrian approach through known landmarks — but the minor settlements in the list, including Gebim, have not all been preserved in the archaeological record or later geographic sources.