גָּלוּ
exile
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Every verse where H1547 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 2:25 גָֽלוּתָ/א֙ n c fs det + ptcl def.art Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:13 גָלוּתָ/א֙ n c fs det + ptcl def.art Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
- Daniel 6:13 גָלוּתָ֜/א n c fs det + ptcl def.art Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, גלות (gâlûwth) means “exile.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 4 verses. The word gravitates to Daniel (75%), then Ezra. Debuting at Ezra 6:16, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1547 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Captivity 3×
- American Standard Version: Captivity 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exile 2×, Exiles 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1547 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1547 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H1547 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 4 tagged occurrences).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1547 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- exile
Word origin
Derived from גלות (gâlûwth) (H1546) — exile.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גָּלוּת
- exile; also (sub. בני) the exiled community, diaspora. Ab. I, 11 שמא תחובו חובת ג׳ ye may be condemned to exile. Ber. 56ᵃ, a. e. ג׳ מכפרת עון exile (leaving home) is an expiation. ג׳ בבל Babylonian captivity; ג׳ יון Greek (Syrian) dominion; ג׳ אדום Roman dominion. Ex. R. s. 15.—Esp. banishment to the city of refuge (Num. XXXV, 11 sq.). Macc. II, 6; a. fr.—Pl. גָּלִיּוֹת. Arakh. 12ᵃ שלש ג׳ three divisions of exiles; Num. R. s. 23, end סנחריב הגלה … ג׳ Sennacherib carried them off in three divisions.—Pes. 88ᵃ קבוץ ג׳ the reunion of the exiled. Men. 110ᵃ ג׳ של שאר וכ׳ the exiled of other countries (besides Babylonia). Bets. 4ᵇ שני ימים טובים של ג׳ the two Holy Days (in the place of the one Biblical) observed by those living abroad (whom the communications of the Palestinean authorities could not reach); a. fr. e.g. Numbers 35:11
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H1547 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָֽלוּתָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:25 | 1 |
| גָלוּתָ/א֙ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 5:13 | 1 |
| גָלוּתָ֗/א | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 6:16 | 1 |
| גָלוּתָ֜/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 6:13 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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