גַּל
gal · gal
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1556 (גָּלַל);
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: billow, heap, spring, wave.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › authority, the one who leads
To carry, to lift up of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גַּל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- this heap4 · 11%
- heap3 · 9%
- heaps3 · 9%
- an heap2 · 6%
- when the waves2 · 6%
- the waves2 · 6%
- there upon the heap1 · 3%
- behold this heap1 · 3%
- the heap1 · 3%
- to become heaps1 · 3%
- waves1 · 3%
- and thy billows1 · 3%
- of their waves1 · 3%
- so that the waves1 · 3%
- a spring1 · 3%
- of1 · 3%
- as the waves1 · 3%
- whose waves1 · 3%
- it: and though the waves1 · 3%
- shall become heaps1 · 3%
- of the waves1 · 3%
- when her waves1 · 3%
- causeth his waves1 · 3%
- are as heaps1 · 3%
- and thy waves1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.