גַּל

gal · heap

Hebrew · Strong's H1530 · Noun · Sounds like: gal · 34 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • heap H1530G 18
  • heap: wave H1530H · a Meaning of 16

Strong's dictionary

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

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
גַּל n.m. heap, wave, billow
1. heap of stones
2. waves (rollers) poet.
3. spring

Every occurrence

  1. Joshua 7:26 גַּל־ gal- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto this day; and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

  2. Joshua 8:29 גַּל־ gal- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua 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, unto this day.

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