גָּלִיל
galil · turning, folding (door)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1550 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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galil (גָּלִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turning, folding (door)”.
Turning: said of the leaves of a door that turn on their pivot. Also a ring or a cylinder.
How to say it
ga·lil
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Turning on a pin: door leaves.
- A round, hollow piece.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- were pivoting ×2
- are cylinders ×1
- rings ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 6:34
and two doors of cypress wood: the two leaves of the one door were pivoting, and the two leaves of the second door were pivoting.
- Esther 1:6
There was white cloth, cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to rings of silver and columns of marble; couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and dark stone.
- Song of Songs 5:14
His hands are cylinders of gold set with chrysolite; his belly a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
And 1 more times.