Geliloth
Geliloth
(Heb. Geliloth’, 7, circuits [see below]; Sept. ,Vulg. tumuli), the name of a place on the boundary of Judah and Benjamin, between En-Shemesh and the ascent to Adummim (Jos 18:17); apparently another form of the GILGAL SEE GILGAL (q.v.) of the parallel passage (Jos 15:7).
The same word is distinctively used (see Stanley, Sinai and Pal. Append. 23) five times in the original: twice with reference to the provinces of the Philistine heptarchy (“borders of the Philistines,” Jos 13:2; “coasts of Palestine,” Joel 3 [4]:4); twice to the circle SEE CICCAR of the Jordan (“borders,” Jos 22:10-11); and once (in the sing.) to the district sloping easterly towards the Dead Sea (” country,” Eze 47:8). Its derivation (from , to roll) connects it with that of Galilee (q.v.), with which the versions sometimes confound it. SEE TOPOGRAPHICAL TERMS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Geliloth
circles; regions, a place in the border of Benjamin (Josh. 18:17); called Gilgal in 15:7.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Geliloth
Jos 18:17. One of the southern bounds of Benjamin, “over against the going up (ascent) of Adummim.” Gilgal occupied the same position “before the going up of Adummim” (Jos 15:7) on the northern boundary of Judah, which is the southern bound of Benjamin; therefore Grove would substitute “Gilgal” for “Geliloth.” Its derivation is gaalal “to roll”; like the Scotch “links,” meaning both the windings of the stream (Geliloth is near the Jordan) and the coasts; whereas Ciccar is the circle of vegetation or dwellings round the bends of the water.
Conder connects Geliloth with the “tells” or mounds of Palestine, which he thinks to be the accumulated refuse of sun-dried bricks, which served as a platform on which others were baked, as at the present day in India and Egypt. They are found in the Jordan valley, and in the plain of Esdraelon. They always occur near water, and in alluvial clay plains, as in the clay lands between Succoth and Zarthan, where Solomon east his temple brasswork.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Geliloth
GELILOTH (stone circles, Jos 18:17).Identical with the Gilgal of Jos 15:7, and possibly with the Bath-gilgal of Neh 12:29. It was a place on the border of Benjamin and Judah near the Ascent of Adummim. This last was probably in the neighbourhood of Tal at ed-dum, a hill near the so-called Inn of the Good Samaritan on the carriage road to Jericho. The word gellth occurs also in the Heb. in Jos 13:2; Jos 22:10-11 and Joe 3:4, and is tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] either borders or coasts, RV [Note: Revised Version.] regions.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Geliloth
ge-lloth (, gelloth): This word is used for districts or circuits perhaps indicating the different parts subject to the several lords of the Philistines (Jos 13:2, the King James Version borders, the Revised Version (British and American) regions); for the quarter of the Jordan valley where the eastern tribes built the altar of Ed (Jos 22:10 f; the King James Version border of, the Revised Version (British and American) region about, Jordan); and apparently, for the whole of Philistia (Joe 3:4, the King James Version coasts of Palestine, the Revised Version (British and American) regions of Philistia). But in Jos 18:17, it is clearly used as a place-name. Geliloth lay on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin which passed En-shemesh (probably Ain el-Hod, about 2 miles East of Jerusalem), and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim. From this point it went down toward the plain. The place cannot therefore be identified with Gilgal in the Jordan valley. Some point on the road leading from Jericho to Talat ed-Dumm, about 6 miles from Jerusalem, was probably intended, but no identification is possible.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Geliloth
[Geli’loth]
A place on the border line between Benjamin and Judah. Jos 18:17. In Jos 15:7 the same is apparently called GILGAL.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Geliloth
H1553
A place marking the boundary of Benjamin
Jos 18:17
Called Gilgal
Jos 15:7
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Geliloth
Gel’iloth. (circuit). A place named among the marks of the south boundary line, of the tribe of Benjamin. Jos 18:17. The name Geliloth never occurs again in this locality, and it, therefore, seems probable that Gilgal is the right reading.