How to Pronounce Galileans

gal-ih-LEE-uhnz

Galileans is pronounced gal-ih-LEE-uhnz: four syllables, stress on the third.

What is Galileans?

the inhabitants of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine. The apostles were all Galileans by either birth or residence. (Acts 1:11) It appears also that the pronunciation of those Jews who resided in Galilee had become peculiar, probably from their contact with their Gentile neighbors. (Matthew 26:73)

Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.

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