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title: גּוֹלָה — exiles · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גּוֹלָה (1473), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 42 times: exiles. BDB 1906: n.f. exiles, exile. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גּוֹלָה

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«גּוֹלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **exiles** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 42 times · **Key:** 1473 · **BDB:** גּוֹלָה

### Glosses

exile\[s\] (14); exile (11); the.exile (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

exiles [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1473/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. exiles, exile [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1473/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. exiles, exile—(cf. Arabic جَالٍ one emigrating, جَالِيَةٌ a company of exiles)—Je 28:6 + 38 times, גֹּלָה Is 49:21 1 Ch 5:22 Est 2:6 Na 3:10;— coll. exiles, Est 2:6 Je 29:1 Ez 1:1; 3:11, 15; 11:24, 25 Na 3:10; כל־הגולה Je 28:6; 29:4, 20, 31, קהל הגולה Ezr 10:8. abstract, exile, Ezr 6:21; 9:4; 10:6 Zc 6:10; הלך בגולה go into exile Je 48:11; 49:3; Ez 12:11; 25:3 Am 1:15; יצא בג׳ Je 29:16; 48:7 Zc 14:2; הוליך גולה carry into exile 2 K 24:15, הביא ג׳ 2 K 24:16, הוציא ג׳ Ez 12:4, העלה ג׳ Ezr 1:11; כלי גולה equipment for exile Je 46:19 Ez 12:3, 4, 7; עד הגלה until the exile 1 Ch 5:22; בני הגולה exiles Ezr 4:1; 6:19, 20; 8:35; 10:7, 16; שׁבי הגולה captivity of the exile Ezr 2:1 Ne 7:6.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גּוֹלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1473/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 11:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.11.25/)

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וָאֲדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־הַגּוֹלָ֑ה אֵ֛ת כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶרְאָֽנִי׃פ

*Word for word:* and I.spoke to the exile\[s\] (et) all the.words of.Yahweh which he had.shown.me

*JPS 1917:* Then I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.

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[Jeremiah 29:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.29.20/)

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וְאַתֶּ֖ם שִׁמְע֣וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֑ה כָּל־הַ֨גּוֹלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־שִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי מִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בָּבֶֽלָה׃ס

*Word for word:* and you hear the.word of.Yahweh O.all the exile\[s\] whom I.sent from Jerusalem to Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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