גְּלִילוֹת
Geliloth
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1553 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Joshua 1 verse
About this entry
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“Geliloth” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name גלילות (Gᵉlîylôwth). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Joshua 18:17. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1553 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Toward geliloth 1×
- American Standard Version†: Geliloth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Geliloth 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Geliloth 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1553 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1553 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1553 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1553 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
גלילות I circuit, boundary, territory
גלילות II loc. (strictly pl. of foreg.
- 1. Jos 18:17 (cf. הַגִּלְגָּל 15:7), place on border between Benj. & Judah. e.g. Joshua 18:17
- 2. locality described as follows:
- a. אֶל־ג׳ הַיַּרְדֵּן אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן Jos 22:10 unto Geliloth (= the circles) of Jordan which is in the land of Canaan; (𝔊 Γαλγαλα, 𝔊L Γαλιλωθ). e.g. Joshua 22:10
- b. אֶל־מוּל אֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן אֶל־עֵבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל v 11 in front of the land of Canaan, in Geliloth of Jordan, beyond the sons of Israel (𝔊 Γαλααδ, 𝔊L om.) v. Di; yet cf. DrIntr. 106 n. Others render ג׳ here circuit of Jordan = כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן; districts VB, cf. גְּלִילָה. e.g. Joshua 22:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. 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.
I. n.pr.loc. (strictly pl. of foreg.; prob. = circles of stones, 𝔙 tumuli, cf. Di)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גלילה (gᵉlîylâh) (H1552) — Galilee.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Geliloth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Circles; regions, a place in the border of Benjamin (Josh. 18:17); called Gilgal in 15:7.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(circuit), a place named among the marks of the south boundary line of the tribe of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:17) The name Geliloth never occurs again in this locality, and it therefore seems probable that Gilgal is the right reading.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
rolling, wheel, heap
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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