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. Isaiah 9:1 גְּלִ֖יל ge.Lil · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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