גָּלוּת
gâlûwth · H1546 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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exile, captivity
Causative action by which a group of people is forced to leave their country to settle somewhere else for an indefinite amount of time
Examples2 Kings 25:27 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;
Jeremiah 52:31 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
Ezekiel 1:2 (On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,
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exiles, deportees
A group of people who have been forcibly taken from their land to another
ExamplesIsaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 45:13 “I have stirred him in righteousness, And I will make all his ways smooth. He will build My city and let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward,” says the LORD of armies.
Jeremiah 24:5 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
13 occurrences in 8 groups
- יְהוּדָהJudah 4
- יְהוֹיָכִיןJehoiachin 2
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 2
- נוּour 2
- חֵילouter wall 1
- כּוּשׁCush 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- שָׁלֵםwhole, wholehearted 2
- סְפָרָדSepharad 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
- בָּבֶלBabylon, Babel 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1
- זָקֵןelder, old 1
- נַעַרyoung man, servant, boy 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1
- אֲשֶׁרthat, which, who 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 1
- נָהַגto lead 1
- נָכַרto recognize 1
- סָגַרto shut 1
- שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 7
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- αἰχμαλωσία aichmalōsía · G161 · captivity
- Greek αἰχμαλωσία directly translates Hebrew גָּלוּת in contexts of exile and captivity, both denoting the state of being taken captive or carried away into exile.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Move002002001012
- The noun denotes the state or event of being carried away into exile, describing the forced removal of a captive population from its land.
- People001001003
- The word also refers collectively to the exiled people themselves, as in references to the exiles of Judah, Egypt, or Cush.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1546. galuth גָּלוּת noun feminine exile — Isa 20:4 9t.; גָּלֻת Obadiah 20 (twice in…
גָּלוּת noun feminine exile — Isa 20:4 9t.; גָּלֻת Obadiah 20 (twice in verse); suffix גָּלוּתִי Isa 45:13, גָּלוּתֵינוּ Eze 33:21; Eze 40:1 (Qames unchangeable); —
1 absolute exile, 2Ki 25:27; Jer 52:31; Eze 1:2; Eze 33:21; Eze 40:1; Amo 1:6, Amo 1:9; Obadiah 20 (twice in verse).
2 collective exiles, כושׁ גלות Isa 20:4, יהודה גלות Jer 24:5; Jer 28:4; Jer 29:22; Jer 40:1, ישׁלח גלותי he shall let my exiles (Yahweh's) go free Isa 45:13; see LagArm. Stud. § 445. **Amo 1:6; Amo 1:9 compare Obad 20 (twice in verse) and Jer 13:19 (ᵐ5 Du Co and others).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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