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Dear all,

I'm unable to follow the explanations of Jim, mainly because I know nothing 
of Egyptian language.
But as regards the etymology of Galilee, I think that maybe both Isaac and 
Jim focus on the issue in a too much complicated way.
The same as in Joel 1:5 we have the noun (SYS, sweet wine or pressed out 
juice, from verb (SS, to press... the noun GLYL is derived from verb GLL, to 
roll, and means, as Isaac suggests, a hilly land, a wavy terrain.

Are there any objections to this?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)



[IF]
It is possible that GALIL is indeed a KALIL, a geographical inclusion
of some sort, but it is also possible that it is so named for its
hilly terrain of GALIM GLULIM. This GAL seems to appear also in the
names GOLAN, GILBO(A, GILGAL, GILOH, [the personal names GALYAT and
the hefty (EGLON of Judges 3:17?] and GIL(AD.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:39 PM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:

> Etymology of “Galilee”
>
> A.  “Galilee” in Hebrew is gimel-lamed-yod-lamed.  There obviously
> are three
> key consonants in “Galilee”, which are gimel-lamed-lamed/G-L-L.
>
> B.  The accepted etymology of the word “Galilee” is that it means
> “district,
> circuit or region”.  Isaiah 9: 1 (alternatively referenced as
> Isaiah 8: 23)
> is cited in support of that proposition.
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> Jim Stinehart
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