Gilead (disambiguation)

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

Gilead may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

United States

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

People with the name

• Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann
• Gilad Erdan
• Gilad Shalit

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictitious places

• 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 which replaces the United States in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale

Literature

• Gilead (novel), the 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson's 2004 novel, titled after its fictional setting in the town of Gilead, Iowa
• Gilead is mentioned in verse 15 of Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem, The Raven

Music

• "There Is a Balm in Gilead", an African-American spiritual song

Biology

• 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

Organizations and enterprises

• 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

See also

• Ghil'ad (disambiguation)
• Ghilad, a commune in Timiș County, Romania
• Gilad (disambiguation)
• Mount Gilead (disambiguation)