Lexicon galil: a cylinder, rod, circuit, district, also a district in Palestine Original Word: גָּלִילPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: galil Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-leel') Short Definition: Galilee NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom galalDefinitiona cylinder, rod, circuit, district, also a district in Pal. NASB TranslationGalilee (5), rings (1), rods (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. גָּלִיל noun masculine cylinder, rod, circuit, district; — 1 cylinder, rod, only plural construct גְּלִילֵי כֶסֶף Esther 1:6 of support of rich hangings ("" עַמּוּדֵי שֵׁשׁ); & גְּלִילֵי זָהָב מְמֻלָּאִים בַּתַּרְשִׁישׁ Songs 5:14, simile of (? fingers of) hands: cylinders of gold set with topaz. 2 circuit, district, on northern border of Israel in Naphtali (see below), population largely heathen (Late Hebrew id. Aramaic גְּלִילָא,  ) — גְּלִיל הַגּוֺיִם Isaiah 8:23; elsewhere = proper name, of a location always with article Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:32; 1 Chronicles 6:61 all ׳קֶדֶשׁ בַּגּ; ׳אֶרֶץ הַגּ 1 Kings 9:11, so also ᵐ5 Joshua 12:23 (compare Di) for גִּלְגַּל q. v.; הַגָּלִ֫ילָה Galilee, 2 Kings 15:29 ("" אֶרֶ֖ נַפְתָּלִי) Ew§ 173 h n Sta§ 308 a 2 Ges§ 90 f.
Strong's Galilee Or (prolonged) Galiylah {gaw-lee-law'}; the same as galiyl; a circle (with the article); Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine -- Galilee. see HEBREW galiyl |
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