BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5866
i.lay — Ilai
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.23.28; also called Ilai at 1Ch.11.29; Another name of tsal.mon (צַלְמוֹן "Zalmon" H6756B) § Ilai = "exalted" an Ahohite, one of David's mighty warriors
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G1056
Galilaia — Galilee
Γαλιλαία, -ας, ἡ (Heb. הַגָּלִיל, the circle, district), Galilee, the name of the northern region of Palestine in NT times: Γ. τῶν ἐθνῶν, Mat.4:15 (LXX); θάλασσα τῆς Γ., Mat.15:29 (cf. Jhn.6:1). (AS)
60 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G1057
Galilaios — Galilean
Γαλιλαῖος, -αία, -αῖον, Galilæan: Mat.26:69, Mrk.14:70, Luk.13:1, 2 22:59, 23:6, Jhn.4:45, Act.1:11 2:7 5:37.† (AS)
10 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6787
deilaios — wretched
lengthened form of δειλός, wretched, sorry, paltry , mostly of persons, [variant datesTragica Adespota; also, δ. χάρις a sorry kindness, (Aeschulus Tragicus); δ. σποδός paltry dust, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc. [Penult. is often made short in attic Poets.] (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →An Ahohite, one of David’s chief warriors (1 Chr. 11:29); called also Zalmon (2 Sam. 23:28).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
