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H1546 גָּלוּת (gâlûwth) gaw-looth'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

feminine from 1540; captivity; concretely, exiles (collectively)

KJV Usage: (they that are carried away) captives(-ity)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גָּלוּת (ga.lut) — captivity. 1) exile, exiles 2) (TWOT) captivity Aramaic equivalent: ga.lut (גָּלוּ "captivity" H1547)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · גלה

Move

exile, captivity = causative action by which a group of people is forced to leave their country to settle somewhere else for an indefinite amount of time

2KI 25:27 · JER 52:31 · EZK 1:2 · EZK 33:21 · EZK 40:1

People | ≈ שְׁבִי

exiles, deportees = a group of people who have been forcibly taken from their land to another

ISA 20:4 · ISA 45:13 · JER 24:5 · JER 28:4 · JER 29:22 · JER 40:1 · AMO 1:6 · AMO 1:9 · OBA 1:20 · OBA 1:20

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גָּלוּת n.f. exile base

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