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Lexicon :: Strong's H1530 - gal

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גַּל
Transliteration
gal
Pronunciation
gal
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 353a

Strong’s Definitions

גַּל gal, gal; from H1556; something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves):—billow, heap, spring, wave.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x

The KJV translates Strong's H1530 in the following manner: heap (18x), wave (14x), spring (1x), billow (1x), of (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x
The KJV translates Strong's H1530 in the following manner: heap (18x), wave (14x), spring (1x), billow (1x), of (1x).

  1. heap, spring, wave, billow

    1. heap (of stones)

      1. over dead body

      2. alone

      3. used in ratifying a covenant

    2. waves (fig. of chastisement of Jehovah)

    3. spring

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גַּל gal, gal; from H1556; something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves):—billow, heap, spring, wave.
STRONGS H1530: Abbreviations
† גַּל noun masculineGenesis 31:48 heap, wave, billow (as rolled together, rolling, rolling up), also spring, MT Songs 4:12 compare 3 below — absolute גַּל Job 8:17 +5 times (including הַגַּל Genesis 31:48 +); גָּ֑ל Genesis 31:46; הַגָּ֑ל Genesis 31:46; לַגָּ֑ל Isaiah 25:2; construct גַּל־ Joshua 7:26 + 2 times + Genesis 31:47, 48 which see below; plural גַּלִּים 2 Kings 19:25 + 6 times; construct גַּלֵּי־ Isaiah 48:18; suffix גַּלָּיו Psalm 89:10 + 6 times; גַּלֵּיהֶם Psalm 65:8 + 2 times; —
1. heap of stones,
a. אבנים ג׳ raised (הקים) over dead body Joshua 7:26; Joshua 8:29; compare 2 Samuel 18:17 (with הִצִּיב).
b. גַּל alone Job 8:17 (roots wrapped about it).
c. heap or pile made (עשׂה) for use in ratifying compact of Jacob with Laban Genesis 31:46 (twice in verse); Genesis 31:48; Genesis 31:51; Genesis 38:52; Genesis 31:52 (twice in verse) compare also גַּלְעֵד proper name.
d. heap of ruins Isaiah 25:2; elsewhere plural Hosea 12:12; 2 Kings 19:25 = Isaiah 37:26; Job 15:28 Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 51:37.
2. waves (rollers) in poetry, only plural, waves of sea Jeremiah 5:22; Jeremiah 31:35; Isaiah 51:15; Job 38:11; Psalm 65:8; Psalm 89:10; Psalm 107:25; Psalm 107:29; compare also in simile Ezekiel 26:3; Isaiah 48:18 (גַּלֵּי־הַיָּם); figurative of chastisements from י׳ Psalm 42:8 (|| מִשְׁבָּרִים) Jonah 2:3 (|| id.); of army of Babylon's conqueror Jeremiah 51:42, 55; compare Zechariah 10:11 (VB; but BevJPh xviii. 88 proposes גִּבְלִים compare Ezekiel 27:9).
3. spring, Songs 4:12 גַּן נָעוּל אֲחוֺתִי כַּלָּ֑ה גַּל נָעוּל מַעְיָן חָתוּם a garden barred (is) my sister, bride, a spring barred, a fountain sealed; but גַּן for גַּל Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:46; 31:46; 31:46; 31:47; 31:48; 31:48; 31:48; 31:48; 31:51; 31:52

Joshua

7:26; 7:26; 8:29

2 Samuel

18:17

2 Kings

19:25; 19:25

Job

8:17; 8:17; 15:28; 38:11

Psalms

42:8; 65:8; 65:8; 89:10; 89:10; 107:25; 107:29

Song of Songs

4:12; 4:12

Isaiah

25:2; 25:2; 37:26; 48:18; 48:18; 51:15

Jeremiah

5:22; 9:10; 31:35; 51:37; 51:42; 51:55

Ezekiel

26:3; 27:9

Hosea

12:12

Jonah

2:3

Zechariah

10:11

H1530

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1530 matches the Hebrew גַּל (gal),
which occurs 34 times in 31 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Ya`akov said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Lavan said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Gal`ed

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Lavan said to Ya`akov, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of `Akhor" to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - The king of `Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Yehoshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - They took Avshalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Yisra'el fled everyone to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 - Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:25 - For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, Which lifts up its waves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:29 - He makes the storm a calm, So that its waves are still.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; A locked up spring, A sealed fountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! then had your shalom been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:15 - For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar: the LORD of Hosts is his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Don't you fear me? says the LORD: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - I will make Yerushalayim heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Yehudah a desolation, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; the LORD of hosts is his name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Bavel shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:42 - The sea is come up on Bavel; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 - For the LORD lays Bavel waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against you, Tzor, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If Gil`ad is wicked, Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:3 - For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - He will pass through the sea of affliction, And will strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Ashshur will be brought down, And the scepter of Mitzrayim will depart.
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