GALILEE

GALILEE

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.32 Cf. 
Ugaritic GN gll-tky, galili-tukiya, uru gal-li-li-tu-ki-ya.

See GALLIM, GILGAL

32 R. Frankel, “Galilee,” in Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, II:879.