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See [[GALLIM]], [[GILGAL]] | See [[GALLIM]], [[GILGAL]] | ||
See also [[Galilee / Gallilee Variant]] | |||
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| Biblical GN | A region just north of Judea in Palestine (2 Nephi 18:23, 19:1 _ Isaiah 8:23, 9:1) |
Hebrew gālîl, gālîlâ, from the root gll “cylinder, rod, circularity” = Egyptian krr, a place in Palestine in the conquest list of Thutmosis III in the 15th century BC.[1] Cf. Ugaritic GN gll-tky, galili-tukiya, uru gal-li-li-tu-ki-ya.
See also Galilee / Gallilee Variant
Notes
- ↑ R. Frankel, “Galilee,” in Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, II:879.
