Evidently a corrupt or alternative name for Gibeon (present-day el Jib in the West Bank, some 8 km NW of Jerusalem; Barrington Atlas map 70 grid G2), known in the Septuagint (e.g. Joshua 9:9) and other Greek sources (e.g Josephus Jewish Antiquities 7.11 (283)) as Γαβαών ('Gabaon'). The ethnic term given here Γαβαονῖται ('Gabaonites' or 'Gibeonites') is attested (e.g. 2 Kings 21:2) for the inhabitants of Gibeon. This is perhaps the origin (via [Herodianus] 3.1.93.7) of Stephanus of Byzantium's reference to a city in Galilee called "Gabaoupolis", with an ethnikon "Gabaoupolites", citing Josephus, who in fact refers (Jewish Antiquities 6.7 (105)) not to "Gabaoupolis" but "Gabaon polin" ('Gabaon city') which may be a reference to Gaba or Gabaa both, like Gibeon, sited within the territory of the tribe of Benjamin (cf. Kallai 1986: 398-404). Curiously none of these places is anywhere near the region of Galilee. Perhaps there is confusion in our sources with the Gaba(a) near Galilee mentioned by Josephus Jewish War 3.3 (36).