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Gilead (Hebrew: Template:Hebrew) 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, 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

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 theocratic nation in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
Gilead (novel), a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson

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, 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)|''Gilead'' (novel)]], a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The title comes from the fictional setting of the town in the novel, Gilead, Iowa.
+* [[Gilead (novel)|''Gilead'' (novel)]], a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
-*''[[Balm in Gilead]]'' is a 1965 play by Lanford Wilson which takes its title from a quote in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah,
-*''[[Balm in Gilead (book)]]'' is Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's 1988 biography of her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence
-*''[[Balm in Gilead (album)]]'' is an album by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones
-* In the Dante Valentine books (2005 to 2008) by [[Lilith Saintcrow]] the Republic of Gilead was a previous fundamentalist dictatorship that had existed before the events of the books.
 ==Other uses==
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 ==See also==
 * [[Mount Gilead (disambiguation)]]
-* [[Balm of Gilead (disambiguation)]]
 * [[Ghilad]], a commune in Timiș County, Romania
 * [[Gilad (disambiguation)]]
+* [[Balm of Gilead (disambiguation)]]
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