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# גְלִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1552

**circuit** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

circuit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1552/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּלִילָה: n.f. circuit, boundary, territory n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1552/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. circuit, boundary, territory —ג׳ Ez 47:8; elsewhere pl. cstr. גְּלִילוֹת Jos 13:2; 22:10, 11 Jo 4:4;—belonging to a people כָּל־גְּלִילוֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים Jos 13:2 cf. Jo 4:4 (כֹּל ג׳ פְּלָ֑שֶׁת); so ג׳ הַיַּרְדֵּן Jos 22:10, 11 according to some, but v. foll.; abs. Ez 47:8 הַגּ׳ הַקַּדְמוֹנָה; as n.pr.loc. 2 K 15:29 Galilee, 𝔊 Γαλιλαια (‖ כֹּל אֶרֶץ נַפְתָּלִי) cf. ii. גָּלִיל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Geliloth (2); the territories (2); territory (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 13:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.2/#tree)

זֹ֥את הָאָ֖רֶץ הַנִּשְׁאָ֑רֶת כָּל־גְּלִיל֥וֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְכָל־הַגְּשׁוּרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the land \[which\] remains all the.territories of the.Philistines and all the Geshurite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

[Joshua 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.10/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ אֶל־גְּלִיל֣וֹת הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וַיִּבְנ֣וּ בְנֵי־רְאוּבֵ֣ן וּבְנֵי־גָ֡ד וַחֲצִ֣י שֵׁבֶט֩ הַֽמְנַשֶּׁ֨ה שָׁ֤ם מִזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ עַל־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן מִזְבֵּ֥חַ גָּד֖וֹל לְמַרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.came to Geliloth of the.Jordan which \[is\].in the.land of.Canaan and they.built the.descendants of.Reuben and the.descendants of.Gad and the.half of.the.tribe of.(the) Manasseh there an.altar at the Jordan an.altar large of appearance

*JPS 1917:* And when they came unto the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1552/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).