Turned
גָּלִילStrong’s H1550galil (ga-lil)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galil is the Hebrew word usually translated “revolving” and “rods of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.”
Meaning
- Adj
- Cylinder, rod
- Circuit, district (on northern border in Naphtali)
How it's translated
- revolving 2
- rods of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Esther 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 1:6Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
- Song of Solomon 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּלִיל galil · turned
adj turning, folding (of doors)
גָּלִיל galil · circuit
1) cylinder, rod 2) circuit, district (on northern border in Naphtali)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “turned” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TURN'ED, participle passive
Moved in a circle; changed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.