- Γαλιλαία
- Γαλιλαία, ας, ἡ Galilee (fr. גָּלִיל circle, district, really גְּלִיל הַגּוֹיִם district of the gentiles, Is 8:23 [9:1]; Mt 4:15, Aram. גְּלִילָא; Strabo 16, 2, 34 and 40; LXX; Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 326; Joseph.; B-D-F. §56, 2), after the Exile, the northern part of Palestine, bounded by Syria, Sidon, Tyre, Ptolemais, Carmel, the plain of Jezreel, and the Jordan (Jos., Bell. 3, 35–40). It was divided into Northern (Upper) and Southern (Lower) Gal. (Jos., Bell. 3, 35; 2, 568; 573, Vi. 187f; Jdth 1:8; Mishnah, Shebiith 9, 2), and fr. the death of Herod the Great in 4 B.C. until 39 A.D. it belonged to the tetrarchy of Herod Antipas. Mentioned w. Samaria Lk 17:11; Ac 9:31; w. the Decapolis Mt 4:25; w. Judea Lk 5:17; Ac 9:31; J 4:47, 54. Used to specify names of places, well-known or otherwise: Ναζαρὲτ τῆς Γ. Mt 21:11; Mk 1:9; Κανᾶ τῆς Γ. J 2:1, 11; 4:46; 21:2; Βηθσαϊδὰ τῆς Γ. 12:21; θάλασσα τῆς Γ. the Lake of Tiberias, or Gennesaret Mt 4:18; 15:29; Mk 1:16; 7:31; J 6:1; τὰ μέρη τῆς Γ. the district of Gal. (s. μέρος 1bγ) Mt 2:22; ἡ περίχωρος τῆς Γ. the surrounding country of G. Mk 1:28; Lk 4:41 v.l.; 23:6 v.l.—Outside the gospels only Ac 9:31; 10:37; 13:31.—HGuthe, RE VI 336ff, XXIII 496f; VSchwöbel, D. Landesnatur Palästinas I and II 1914; CWatzinger, Denkmäler Palästinas II ’35; GBertram, ARW 32, ’35, 265–81; GSchrenk, Gal. z. Zt. Jesu ’41; WMeeks, Galilee and Judea in the 4th Gosp., JBL 85, ’66, 159–69; BHHW I 510–12; RAC VIII 796–821. RHorsley, Galilee: History, Politics, People ’95; OEANE II 369–76.
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