galut · exile

What it means

galut (גָּלוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “exile”.

The time and condition of living in exile far from one's own land; also the whole body of exiles (2 Kings 25:27; Isaiah 45:13; Jeremiah 29:22).

How to say it

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

1. Living forced away from your land.
2. The group of those carried off far from their land.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• exiles ×8
• exile ×5
• captive people ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×3
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×2

• 2 Kings 25:27

  And it happened, in year thirty-seven of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison.

• Isaiah 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: the nakedness of Egypt.

• Isaiah 45:13

  I have stirred him up in righteousness, and all his ways I will make straight; he will build my city and let my exiles go, not for a price nor for a bribe,” says YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 24:5

  “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

• Jeremiah 28:4

  And Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place, declares YHWH, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

• Jeremiah 29:22

  And from them a curse will be taken up by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘May YHWH make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,’

• Jeremiah 40:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH after Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him, and he was bound in fetters among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 52:31

  And it happened, in year thirty-seven 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 year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

• Ezekiel 1:2

  On the fifth day of the month —it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

• Ezekiel 33:21

  And it came about in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, that the fugitive from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been struck.”

• Ezekiel 40:1

  In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on this very day the hand of YHWH was upon me, and he brought me there.

• Amos 1:6

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they carried into exile a whole captive people to hand them over to Edom.

• Amos 1:9

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they handed over a whole captive people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brothers.

• Obadiah 1:20

  And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel will possess what belongs to the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

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