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HebrewH1551Noun

גָּלִיל

ga.lil

4Occurrences
H1551Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine

or (prolonged) גָּלִילָה; the same as H1550 (גָּלִיל); a circle (with the article);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Galilee = "circuit, district" a territory in Naphtali largely occupied by heathen; a circuit of towns around Kedesh-Naphtali, in which were situated the 20 towns given by Solomon to Hiram king of Tyre as payment for his work in conveying timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

גָּלִיל appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
2
1 Kings
1
2 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 9:11BSB

King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.

2 Kings 15:29BSB

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

Joshua 20:7BSB

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 21:32BSB

And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.

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