Galilee
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go
into heaven....
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gal'-i-le (ha-galil, hagelilah, literally, "the circuit" or
"district"; he Galilaia):
1. Galilee of the Nations:
Kedesh, the city of refuge, is described as lying in
Galilee, in Mt. Naphtali (Josh 20:7; compare 21:32). The
name seems originally to have referred to the territory of
Naphtali. Joshua's victorious campaign in the north (Josh
11), ...
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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of
Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the
tetrarch of Abilene,...
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In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah,
and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria....
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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ
come out of Galilee?...
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([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
the land of Galilee....
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(gal' ih lee) Place name meaning, "circle" or "region." The
northern part of Israel above the hill country of Ephraim
and the hill country of Judah (Joshua 20:7). The Septuagint
or early Greek translation referred to a king of the nations
of Galilee in Joshua 12:23, though the Hebrew reads,
"Gilgal." Many scholars see the Greek as original (NR...
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circuit. Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services
rendered
him by the gift of an upland plain among the
mountains of
Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and
called it
"the land of Cabul" (q.v.). The Jews called it
Galil. It
continued long to be occupied by the original
inhabitants, and
hence came to be called "Galilee of th...
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(circuit). This name, which in the Roman age was applied to
a large province, seems to have been originally confined to
a little "circuit" of country round Kedesh-Naphtali, in
which were situated the twenty towns given by Solomon to
Hiram king of Tyre as payment for his work in conveying
timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem. Jos 20:7; 1Ki 9:11 In ...
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