Jastrow: גָּלוּת

גָּלוּת f. (b. h.; גלי) exile; also (sub. בני) the exiled community, diaspora. Ab. I, 11 שמא תחובו חובת ג׳ ye may be condemned to exile. Ber. 56ᵃ, a. e. ג׳ מכפרת עון exile (leaving home) is an expiation. ג׳ בבל Babylonian captivity; ג׳ יון Greek (Syrian) dominion; ג׳ אדום Roman dominion. Ex. R. s. 15.—Esp. banishment to the city of refuge (Num. XXXV, 11 sq.). Macc. II, 6; a. fr.—Pl. גָּלִיּוֹת. Arakh. 12ᵃ שלש ג׳ three divisions of exiles; Num. R. s. 23, end סנחריב הגלה … ג׳ Sennacherib carried them off in three divisions.—Pes. 88ᵃ קבוץ ג׳ the reunion of the exiled. Men. 110ᵃ ג׳ של שאר וכ׳ the exiled of other countries (besides Babylonia). Bets. 4ᵇ שני ימים טובים של ג׳ the two Holy Days (in the place of the one Biblical) observed by those living abroad (whom the communications of the Palestinean authorities could not reach); a. fr.