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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.
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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

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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 - and Jacob saith to his brethren, 'Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - And Laban saith, 'This heap is witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban saith to Jacob, 'Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - and they raise up over him a great heap of stones unto this day, and Jehovah turneth back from the heat of His anger, therefore hath one called the name of that place 'Valley of Achor' till this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - and they take Absalom and cast him in the forest unto the great pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones, and all Israel have fled -- each to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps are fenced cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 - Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:25 - And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:29 - He establisheth a whirlwind to a calm, And hushed are their billows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 - For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:15 - And I am Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts is His name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:42 - Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 - For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, And hath destroyed out of it a great voice, And sounded have its billows as many waters, Given forth a noise hath their voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - Surely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:3 - When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And He hath passed over through the sea, And hath pressed and smitten billows in the sea, And dried up have been all depths of a flood, And brought down hath been the excellency of Asshur, And the rod of Egypt doth turn aside.
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