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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 - Then Jacob said to his brethren, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - “This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor[fn] to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - ‘Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots wrap around the rock heap,
And look for a place in the stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - He dwells in desolate cities,
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - When I said,
‘This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves must stop!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 - You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - You rule the raging of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still 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 the waves of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - A garden enclosed
Is my sister, my spouse,
A spring shut up,
A fountain sealed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For You have made a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:15 - But I am the LORD your God,
Who divided the sea whose waves roared—
The LORD of hosts is His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD.
‘Will you not tremble at My presence,
Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it?
And though its waves toss to and fro,
Yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an 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,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs the sea,
And its waves roar
(The LORD of hosts is His name):

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:42 - The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 - Because the LORD is plundering Babylon
And silencing her loud voice,
Though her waves roar like great waters,
And 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, O Tyre, 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 - Though Gilead has idols—
Surely they are vanity—
Though they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal,
Indeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:3 - For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - He shall pass through the sea with affliction,
And strike the waves of the sea:
All the depths of the River[fn] shall dry up.
Then the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
And the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
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