Galilee Definition

gălə-lē
noun
A porch or chapel at the western entrance of certain medieval churches.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.

Wiktionary
The Sea of Galilee.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Galilee

Noun

Singular:
galilee
Plural:
galilees

Origin of Galilee

  • Middle English galile from Old North French galilee from Medieval Latin galilaea from Latin Galilaea Galilee

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Γαλιλαία (Galilaia), from Hebrew גליל (galíl).

    From Wiktionary

Galilee Sentence Examples

  • The prince of Tyre occupied part of Galilee.

  • The Idumaean Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar procurator of Judaea, Samaria and Galilee, as a reward for services rendered against Pompey.

  • These troubles, we learn, had affected all Solomon's reign, and even Hiram appears to have acquired a portion of Galilee.

  • Galilee was pacified, Jerusalem taken and Antigonus beheaded by the Romans.

  • Elsewhere the occasion tempted many to play at being king - Judas, son of Hezekiah, in Galilee; Simon, one of the king's slaves, in Peraea.

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