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title: גְלִילָה — circuit · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גְלִילָה (1552), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: circuit. BDB 1906: n.f. circuit, boundary, territory n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גְלִילָה

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«גְלִילָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **circuit** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 1552 · **BDB:** גְּלִילָה

### Glosses

Geliloth (2); the.territories (2); territory (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גְלִילָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1552/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.

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