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Strong's #1530: gal (pronounced gal)

from 1556; something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves):--billow, heap, spring, wave.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gal

1) heap, spring, wave, billow

1a) heap (of stones)

1a1) over dead body

1a2) alone

1a3) used in ratifying a covenant

1b) waves (figuratively of chastisement of Jehovah)

1c) spring

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1556



Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

Genesis 31:46: "and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap."
Genesis 31:46: "and they did eat there upon the heap."
Genesis 31:48: "And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore"
Genesis 31:51: "to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, I have cast"
Genesis 31:52: "This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not"
Genesis 31:52: "this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not"
Genesis 31:52: "pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm."
Joshua 7:26: "And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day."
Joshua 8:29: "the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones,"
2 Samuel 18:17: "a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel"
2 Kings 19:25: "have I brought it to pass, to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps."
Job 8:17: "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."
Job 15:28: "man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps."
Job 38:11: "but no further: and here shall thy proud waves"
Psalms 42:7: "of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over"
Psalms 65:7: "the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people."
Psalms 89:9: "rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest"
Psalms 107:25: "the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves"
Psalms 107:29: "He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still."
Song of Solomon 4:12: "enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed."
Isaiah 25:2: "For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin:"
Isaiah 37:26: "that thou shouldest be to lay waste defensed cities into ruinous heaps."
Isaiah 48:18: "been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves"
Isaiah 51:15: "thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD is his name."
Jeremiah 5:22: "by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;"
Jeremiah 9:11: "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities"
Jeremiah 31:35: "by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:"
Jeremiah 51:37: "And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without"
Jeremiah 51:42: "Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves"
Jeremiah 51:55: "out of her the great when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise"
Ezekiel 26:3: "to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up."
Hosea 12:11: "in Gilgal; their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields."
Jonah 2:3: "compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over"
Zechariah 10:11: "through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps"









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