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H1552 גְלִילָה (gᵉlîylâh) ghel-ee-law'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

feminine of 1550; a circuit or region

KJV Usage: border, coast, country

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גְלִילָה (ge.li.lah) — border. 1) circuit, boundary, territory Galilee = "circuit, district" 2) a territory in Naphtali largely occupied by heathen; a circuit of towns around Kedesh-Naphtali, in which were situated the 20 towns given by Solomon to Hiram king of Tyre as payment for his work in conveying timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · גלל

Land

region, district = a territorial division

JOS 13:2 · JOS 22:10 · JOS 22:11 · EZK 47:8 · JOL 4:4

1 JOS 22:10 · JOS 22:11 RSV NJPS NRSV ESV "region" | NIV REB GNT "Geliloth" = גְּלִילֹות | NJB "stone circle"

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גְלִילָה n.f. circuit, boundary, territory; as n.pr.loc. Galilee base

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