גָּלוּת
ga.lut
“captivity”
Definition
captivity; concretely, exiles (collectively)
feminine from H1540 (גָּלָה);
- exile, exiles 2) (TWOT) captivity Aramaic equivalent: ga.lut (*גָּלוּ *"captivity" H1547)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
גָּלוּת appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
This is what the LORD says:“For three transgressions of Tyre, even four,I will not revoke My judgment,because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edomand broke a covenant of brotherhood.
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so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
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