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galilee
Part of speech: NounA Roman province of Palestine in the time of Christ; a porch or chapel annexed to some anc. churches.
Usage examples "galilee":- 9. Jesus had just crossed over the sea of Galilee and, attracted by the miracles which he had wrought, great multitudes had followed after Him. - "The Personal Touch", J. Wilbur Chapman.
- 26. There was a town Hamad, as well as Hamon, in Galilee: also, Amida, in Mesopotamia. - "A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.", Jacob Bryant.
- And there, as the flome Jordan parteth from the sea of Galilee, is a great bridge, where men pass from the Land of Promission to the land of King Bashan and the land of Gennesaret, that be about the flom Jordan and the beginning of the sea of Tiberias. - "The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville", Mandeville, John, Sir.