Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1546
גָּלוּת
galuthgaw-looth'
captivity
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâlûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1546is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1546
captivity; concretely, exiles (collectively)
The King James renders it: (they that are carried away) captives(-ity).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
galuth is rendered "captivity". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 25:27On 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.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
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.
2 Kings 25:27לְגָלוּת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- exile of5
- of exile of3
- and exile of2
- exile2
- of exile our2
- and exile my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּלָה | galah | Heglam | Uses186 |
| גָּלַח | galach | to shave | Uses23 |
| גָּלַל | galal | to roll | Uses18 |
| גָּלָל | galal | because of | Uses10 |
| גָּלוּת | galuth | captivity | Uses4 |
| גָּלִיל | galil | turned | Uses4 |
| גָּלַע | gala | to quarrel | Uses3 |
| גָּלָל | galal | dung | Uses2 |
| גָּלַשׁ | galash | to step down | Uses2 |
| גָּלַם | galam | to fold | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גָּל֥וּת2
- גָּל֣וּת2
- גָּל֤וּת2
- לְגָלוּת֙2
- גָּל֨וּת1
- וְגָלוּתִ֣י1
- וְגָלֻ֣ת1
- וְגָלֻ֥ת1
- לְגָל֖וּת1
- לְגָלוּתֵ֑נוּ1
- לְ֠גָלוּתֵנוּ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural2HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
2 Kings
one use
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.
- לְגָלוּת֙legalutpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of exile of
Isaiah
two uses
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.
- גָּל֥וּתgalutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: exile of
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
- וְגָלוּתִ֣יvegaluticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and exile my
Jeremiah
five uses
“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.
- גָּל֣וּתgalutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: exile of
And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
- גָּל֨וּתgalutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: exile of
Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
- גָּל֣וּתgalutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: exile of
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
- גָּל֤וּתgalutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: exile of
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
- לְגָלוּת֙legalutpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of exile of
Ezekiel
three uses
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
- לְגָל֖וּתlegalutpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of exile of
In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
- לְגָלוּתֵ֑נוּlegalutenupreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: of exile our
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- לְ֠גָלוּתֵנוּlegalutenupreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: of exile our
Amos
two uses
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.
- גָּל֥וּתgalutnoun · feminine singulartagged: exile
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 Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.
- גָּל֤וּתgalutnoun · feminine singulartagged: exile
Obadiah
two uses
And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
- וְגָלֻ֣תvegalutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and exile of
- וְגָלֻ֥תvegalutconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and exile of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.