Strong's #1602: ga`al (pronounced gaw-al')

a primitive root; to detest; by implication, to reject:--abhor, fail, lothe, vilely cast away.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâ‛al

1) to abhor, loathe, be vilely cast away, fall

1a) (Qal) to abhor, loathe

1b) (Niphal) to be defiled

1c) (Hiphil) to reject as loathsome, show aversion

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Leviticus 26:11: "among you: and my soul shall not abhor"
Leviticus 26:15: "my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do"
Leviticus 26:30: "the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor"
Leviticus 26:43: "they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes."
Leviticus 26:44: "of their enemies, cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant"
2 Samuel 1:21: "there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed"
Job 21:10: "Their bull engendereth, and faileth not; their cow and casteth not her calf."
Jeremiah 14:19: "Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed why hast thou smitten"
Ezekiel 16:45: "Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and thou art the sister"
Ezekiel 16:45: "art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite,"