Galilee
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Etymology edit
From Middle English Galilee, from Old French Galilee, from Medieval Latin Galilea, from Ancient Greek Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ (Galīlaíā), from Hebrew גָּלִיל (galíl).
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Proper noun edit
Galilee
- A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
- The Sea of Galilee.
- A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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region of northern Israel
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Proper noun edit
Galilee
- Galilee
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:23, page 1v, column 1, lines 13–17; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- and Iḣc ȝede aboute al galilee techynge in þe ſynagogıs of hem · ⁊ pꝛechynge þe goſpel of þe kyngdom ⁊ heelynge eùy langoꝛe ⁊ ech ſıkeneſſe among þe puple /
- And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues of them, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every languor and each sickness among the people.[2]
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