Strong H1551גָּלִיל
Galilee
- Transliteration
- gâlîyl gâlîylâh
- Pronunciation
- {gaw-leel'} gaw-lee-law'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
The same as H1550; a circle (with the article);
Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine: - Galilee.
Galil (as a special circuit) in the North of Palestine: - Galilee.
Meaning of the name
Galilee = "circuit, district"
Detailed definition
Galilee, a region in northern Israel, was a significant location in Jesus' life and ministry, as well as the homeland of many of his disciples.
In the biblical story
Galilee
Region in northern Israel; key location in Jesus' ministry
Galilee, a region in northern Israel, was a significant location in Jesus' life and ministry, as well as the homeland of many of his disciples.
In the Bible
Strong H1551 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- galilee6
First verses
- Joshua 20:7And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
- 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 Hammoth–dor 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 Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, 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.