Word Study · Strong's H1551 · Hebrew
גָּלִיל
Galil
gaw-leel'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Gâlîyl
“Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Galilee.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- בַּגָּלִיל֙2
- בַּגָּלִ֤יל1
- גְּלִ֖יל1
- הַגָּלִֽיל׃1
- הַגָּלִ֔ילָה1
How it is rendered · 4
- in the Galilee3
- Galilee of1
- the Galilee1
- the Galilee towards1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)3
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HRd/Npl · 3
- HNcmsc · 1
- HTd/Npl · 1
- HTd/Npl/Sd · 1
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Joshua2 occurrences
- Joshua 20:7בַּגָּלִיל֙bagalilpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)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.here: in the Galilee
- Joshua 21:32בַּגָּלִ֤ילbagalilpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)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.here: in the Galilee
Same headword in Strong's