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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

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 - And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon 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 me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:52 - let this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap to go to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar to come to me, for harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:26 - And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. And Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley of Achor, 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 the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, which 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 great pit in the wood, and raised a very great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every one to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest 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 entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 - Who stilleth the raging of the seas, the raging of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - *Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:25 - For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:29 - He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof 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 thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:15 - And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, -- Jehovah of hosts is his name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of 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 upon 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 - for Jehovah spoileth Babylon, and he will destroy out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like great waters, the noise of their voice resoundeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:3 - For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 - And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the billows in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
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