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# גְּלִילוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1553

**Geliloth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Geliloth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1553/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּלִילוֹת: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1553/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (strictly pl. of foreg.; prob. = circles of stones, 𝔙 tumuli, cf. Di) Jos 18:17 (cf. הַגִּלְגָּל 15:7), place on border between Benj. & Judah. locality described as follows: אֶל־ג׳ הַיַּרְדֵּן אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן Jos 22:10 unto Geliloth (= the circles) of Jordan which is in the land of Canaan; (𝔊 Γαλγαλα, 𝔊L Γαλιλωθ). אֶל־מוּל אֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן אֶל־עֵבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל v 11 in front of the land of Canaan, in Geliloth of Jordan, beyond the sons of Israel (𝔊 Γαλααδ, 𝔊L om.) v. Di; yet cf. DrIntr. 106 n. Others render ג׳ here circuit of Jordan = כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן; districts VB, cf. גְּלִילָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.17/#tree)

וְתָאַ֣ר מִצָּפ֗וֹן וְיָצָא֙ עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ וְיָצָא֙ אֶל־גְּלִיל֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־נֹ֖כַח מַעֲלֵ֣ה אֲדֻמִּ֑ים וְיָרַ֕ד אֶ֥בֶן בֹּ֖הַן בֶּן־רְאוּבֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns from.\[the\] north and it.goes.out En Shemesh and it.goes.out to Geliloth which \[is\].opposite the.ascent of.Adummim and it.goes.down the.stone of Bohan the.son.of.Reuben

*JPS 1917:* And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1553/): 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).