גָּלוּתgâlûwth

exile

Pronunciation: gaw-looth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1546

Meanings

1. exile, absolute (2 Kings 25:27; Jeremiah 52:31; Ezekiel 1:2)

2. exiles, collective (Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 24:5; Jeremiah 28:4)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.
  • Isaiah 20:4 For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.
  • Isaiah 45:13 I will raise up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose, and I will guide his actions. He will restore my city and free my captive people— without seeking a reward! I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
  • Jeremiah 24:5 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Judah to the land of the Babylonians.
  • Jeremiah 28:4 And I will bring back Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the other captives that were taken to Babylon. I will surely break the yoke that the king of Babylon has put on your necks. I, the Lord, have spoken!’”
  • Jeremiah 29:22 Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).