Galilee
גִּלְגָּלStrong’s H1551gilgal (gil-gal)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gilgal is the Hebrew word usually translated “galilee”, “galilee towards” and “galilee of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.”
Meaning
- Gilgal = "a wheel, rolling"
How it's translated
- in galilee 3
- galilee 1
- galilee towards 1
- galilee of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 21:32And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
- 1 Kings 9:11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
- 2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
- 1 Chronicles 6:76And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
- Isaiah 9:1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּלְגָּל gilgal · Galilee
Gilgal = "a wheel, rolling" a region conquered by Joshua, site unsure Another spelling of ga.lil (גָּלִיל "Galilee" H1551)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.