Hebrew word · H1554
גַּלִּים
galim
Gallim
A place name, the plural of gal, 'heap' or 'wave'. Probably 'Heaps', perhaps referring to ruin-mounds or piles of stones.
Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
§ Gallim = "springs"
a place north of Jerusalem, home town of the man to whom Michal, Saul's daughter, David's wife, was given as wife by Saul even though she was already married to David
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of 1 Samuel 25:44
- Range of meaning
A place name, the plural of gal, 'heap' or 'wave'. Probably 'Heaps', perhaps referring to ruin-mounds or piles of stones.
- Against the English
Simply transliterated in English.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Isaiah 10:29–30 traces an invader's advance on Jerusalem: '…Gibeah of Saul has fled. Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth!' That places Gallim in Benjamin, north of Jerusalem, near Saul's capital at Gibeah. Its exact site is uncertain. 1 Chr 2:23 is sometimes linked to it, but that identification is doubtful.
Where it appears
1 Samuel · 1
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1 Samuel 25:44 מִגַּלִּֽים׃ [was] from Gallim
But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
Here: A village whose name probably means 'heaps'. Isaiah 10:29–30 lists it with Gibeah of Saul and Anathoth, which puts it in Benjamin, Saul's own tribe, close to his home base. Saul married his daughter to a man of his own territory.
Isaiah · 1
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Isaiah 10:30 גַּלִּ֑ים Gallim
Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
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