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Gilead (Hebrew: גלעד‎) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.

Gilead may also refer to:

Gilead, Connecticut, a village in the town of Hebron
Gilead, Illinois, an unincorporated community
Gilead, Indiana, 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

Gilead Sher (born 1953), Israeli attorney, government official and peace negotiator
Gilead J. Wilmot (1834–?), American politician

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 totalitarian 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

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

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-'''[[Gilead]]''' (Hebrew: {{Hebrew|גלעד}}) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.
+'''[[Gilead]]''' (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|גלעד}}) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.
 '''Gilead''' may also refer to:
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 * [[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
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 * [[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]]''
+* [[Republic of Gilead]], the fictional totalitarian theocratic nation in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel ''The Handmaid's Tale''
 * [[Gilead (novel)|''Gilead'' (novel)]], a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
+* Gilead, a novelette by [[Zenna Henderson]] in her [[Ingathering:_The_Complete_People_Stories|Ingathering]] series
 ==Other uses==
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 * [[Ghilad]], a commune in Timiș County, Romania
 * [[Gilad (disambiguation)]]
+* [[Balm of Gilead (disambiguation)]]
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