Strong's #1351: ga'al (pronounced gaw-al')

a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating); to soil or (figuratively) desecrate:--defile, pollute, stain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâ'al

1) to defile, pollute, desecrate

1a) (Niphal) to be defiled, be polluted

1b) (Piel) to pollute, desecrate

1c) (Pual) to be desecrated (of removal from priesthood)

1d) (Hiphil) to pollute, stain

1e) (Hithpael) to defile oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Ezra 2:62: "among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood."
Nehemiah 7:64: "among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood."
Isaiah 59:3: "For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; have spoken"
Isaiah 63:3: "them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment."
Lamentations 4:14: "They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could touch"
Daniel 1:8: "his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank:"
Daniel 1:8: "of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself."
Zephaniah 3:1: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!"
Malachi 1:7: "Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, have we polluted"
Malachi 1:7: "mine altar; and ye say, have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible."
Malachi 1:12: "it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; thereof, even his meat, is contemptible."