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Revision as of 07:08, 4 April 2010
Gilead is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.
Gilead may also refer to:
- Balm of Gilead, a healing compound made from the resinous gum of Populus candicans
- Balsam of Mecca, also known as the balm balsam of Gilead, a resinous gum of the tree Commiphora gileadensis
- "There Is A Balm In Gilead", African-American spiritual song
- Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical based in Foster City, CA
- Gilead School, Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary training program headquartered in Patterson, New York; officially chartered as Watchtower Bible School of Gilead
- Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon
Places
- United States
- Gilead, Indiana
- Gilead, Maine
- Gilead Township, Michigan
- Gilead, Nebraska
- Gilead Township, Morrow County, Ohio
- Mount Gilead, Ohio
- Mount Gilead, North Carolina
- Mount Gilead, Virginia
- Australia
- Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
- Fictional places
- The Republic of Gilead, the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
- Gilead (novel), by Marilynne Robinson, and the notional Iowa town where the novel is set
- Gil'ead, a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon
- Gilead, birthplace of Roland Deschain in the The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King
Other uses
- Gilead Sciences, biotech company based in Foster City, California