Synonyms:
Galilee
Meaning: an area of northern Israel; formerly the northern part of Palestine and the ancient kingdom of Israel; the scene of Jesus's ministry
Usage examples
A Description Of Galilee, Samaria, And Judea.
Placidus Attempts To Take Jotapata And Is Beaten Off. Vespasian Marches Into Galilee.
At this city also the inhabitants of Sepphoris of Galilee met him, who were for peace with the Romans.
When Agrippa had finished what I have above related at Berytus, he removed to Tiberias, a city of Galilee.
The first ten and one-half miles the water falls six hundred and eighty feet to where it enters the Sea of Galilee.
And now Herod altered his testament upon the alteration of his mind; for he appointed Antipas, to whom he had before left the kingdom, to be tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and granted the kingdom to Archclaus.
How impossible it would have seemed to Peter, in the days when he washed his nets by the Lake of Galilee, that his writings should ever form a part of the Scriptures--God's Book, which he had learned from his childhood to love and reverence!
It was the Cherry Tree Carol that rose outside, of how sweet Mary, the Queen of Galilee, besought Joseph to pluck the cherries for her Babe, and Joseph refused; and the voices of the singers, that had begun hesitatingly, grew strong and loud and free.
And indeed the danger of losing Sepphoris would be no small one, in this war that was now beginning, seeing it was the largest city of Galilee, and built in a place by nature very strong, and might be a security of the whole nation's [fidelity to the Romans].