Not used strictly for the descendants of one man. Numbers 26:29 refers to the descendants of Manasseh (No. 1, in the article on Gilead) and Judges 11:1,40 and Judges 12:7 to No. 2. We also read of Jair a Gileadite (Judg. 10:3); and Barzillai (2 Sam. 17:27; 2 Sam. 19:31; 1 Kings 2:7; Ezra 2:61; Neh. 7:63). The Ephraimites accused the Gileadites and Jephthah with being fugitives from them, but they were severely punished for their arrogance (Judg. 12:4-6). Pekah when he revolted against Pekahiah slew fifty men of the Gileadites (2 Kings 15:25).