Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Gidon ben Yoash Family
Write the Great Bookגִּדְעוֹן
(Gideon)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Gidon ben Yoash lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Judge who delivers Israel from the Midianites with only 300 men. He refuses kingship: "I will not rule over you, YHWH will rule over you." Father of Avimelekh, ephemeral king of Shechem.
Geographic origin: Ofra (tribu de Manassé)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Gidon ben Yoash lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
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Lineage Map
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gidon-gedeon">Gidon ben Yoash — Zakhor</a>Citation
Gidon ben Yoash — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gidon-gedeonVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
GidonGideonGédéonYeroubaalJerubaal
עברית · Hebrew1
גִּדְעוֹן
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Notable figures
- 1.
Gidon
Juge
- 2.
Avimelekh
Roi éphémère de Sichem
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Gidon ben Yoash.
Search “Gidon ben Yoash” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Diaspora regions
Samarie
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Gidon ben Yoash give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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