Gilead (disambiguation)

Gilead is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.

Gilead may also refer to:

• Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon
• Gilead (novel), the 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Gilead School, Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary training program headquartered in New York state; officially chartered as Watchtower Bible School of Gilead
• Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company based in California
• Balm of Gilead, a healing compound made from the resinous gum of Populus candicans
• Balsam of Mecca, also known as the balm of Gilead, a resinous gum of the tree Commiphora gileadensis
• "There Is a Balm in Gilead," African-American spiritual song

Places

United States

• Gilead, Indiana
• Gilead, Iowa
• Gilead, Maine
• Gilead Township, Michigan
• Gilead, Nebraska
• Gilead Township, Morrow County, Ohio

Australia

• Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

Fictional places

• Gilead, birthplace of Roland Deschain in the The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King
• Gil'ead, a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon
• Republic of Gilead, the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale

See also

• Mount Gilead, for more place names