Commentary for Berakhot 34:4
ופליגא דרב יהודה דאמר רב יהודה מאן אבירי לב גובאי טפשאי אמר רב יוסף תדע דהא לא איגייר גיורא מינייהו
This contradicts the statement of Rab Judah who says : Who are the "stout-hearted"? They are the foolish Gobeans. Rab Joseph said : Thou canst know [that the "stout-hearted" are the Gobeans] because not one of them has ever been made a proselyte.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The inhabitants of Gobia in Babylon. A tradition identities them with the Netinim of the Bible, the descendants of the Gibeonites (hence, Gobeans) who were made hewers of wood and drawers of water in the days of Joshua. See Kiddushin 70 b.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
M. : Abbai.
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