Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1551
גָּלִיל
Galilgaw-leel'
Galilee
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Gâlîyl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1551is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1551
Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine
The King James renders it: Galilee.
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
Galil is rendered "Galilee". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 20:7So 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.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
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.
Joshua 20:7בַּגָּלִיל֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in the Galilee3
- Galilee of1
- the Galilee1
- the Galilee towards1
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 |
| גָּלוּת | galuth | captivity | Uses15 |
| 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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- בַּגָּלִיל֙2
- בַּגָּלִ֤יל1
- גְּלִ֖יל1
- הַגָּלִֽיל׃1
- הַגָּלִ֔ילָה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)3HRd/Npl
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HTd/Npl
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HTd/Npl/Sd
Joshua
two uses
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.
- בַּגָּלִיל֙bagalilpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Galilee
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.
- בַּגָּלִ֤ילbagalilpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Galilee
1 Kings
one use
King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
- הַגָּלִֽיל׃hagalilthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Galilee
2 Kings
one use
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
- הַגָּלִ֔ילָהhagalilahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the Galilee towards
1 Chronicles
one use
And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon, and Kiriathaim, together with their pasturelands.
- בַּגָּלִיל֙bagalilpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: in the Galilee
Isaiah
one use
Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
- גְּלִ֖ילgelilnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Galilee 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 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.