גָּלִיל

ga.lil · Galilee

Hebrew · Strong's H1551 · Noun · Sounds like: gaw-leel' · 6 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

or (prolonged) גָּלִילָה; the same as גָּלִיל; a circle (with the article); Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine; Galilee.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
גָּלִיל n.m. cylinder, rod, circuit, district
1. cylinder, rod
2. circuit, district, on northern border of Israel, in Naphtali

Every occurrence

  1. Joshua 20:7 בַּגָּלִיל֙ ba.ga.Lil · A person, place or thing

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

  2. Joshua 21:32 בַּגָּלִ֤יל ba.ga.Lil · A person, place or thing

    And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

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