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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Etymology of "Galilee"
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 00:56:00 -0400

Jim,

You are right that GL, 'mound, swell, encompass', and GR, 'aggregate' are used both for elevated land, but we do not need the Egyptians to remind us of this. In Genesis 31:47 Jacob refers to the pile of stones they erected as GAL and Laban calls it YGAR.
Now GAR, in its variant HAR, is used for a full fledged mountain, while GAL is but a small mound or a wave.
A GAR in its variant KAR is left us in the name Mount KARMEL, by people who liked quadrilitteral roots.
GR in its variant QR is found in QIR, 'wall'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:34 AM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:


Pere Porta is right that GLL in part means “rolling”. But GLL is never
applied to the rolling hill country of southern Canaan. No, GLL is almost always
found in a northern greater Canaan context. Same with GL.

Isaac Fried has given us many nice GL words. Now let’s see what we can do
with those GL words.

1. From the 1st millennium BCE to the present, the Sea of Galilee in
northern Canaan has been surrounded by three vast tracts of land, all three of whose
names begin with GLL or GL: Galilee/GLL to the west, Golan/the Golan
Height/GL to the northeast, and Gilead/GL to the southeast. Northern greater Canaan
is GLL/GL country.

2. Before the southern Hebrews came into being, in the mid-14th century BCE,
this was GRR/GR country. That’s GRR/Gerar at Genesis 20: 1, and GR/ Gar/Garu
in the Amarna Letters. GRR is but an earlier version of GLL.
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Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois




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