Strong's #1486: gowral (pronounced go-rawl')
or (shortened) goral {go-ral'}; from an unused root meaning to be rough (as stone); properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot):--lot.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gôrâl
1) lot
1a) lot - pebbles used for systematically making decisions
2) portion
2a) lot, portion (thing assigned by casting lots)
2b) recompense, retribution
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to be rough (as stone)
Usage:
This word is used 77 times:
1 Chronicles 26:13: "And they cast lots, as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate."
1 Chronicles 26:14: " And the lot eastward to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor,"
1 Chronicles 26:14: "a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward."
1 Chronicles 26:14: "counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward."
Nehemiah 10:34: "And we cast the lots among And we cast the lots among the priests, and the people, for the wood offering,"
Nehemiah 11:1: "the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten"
Esther 3:7: "Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day"
Esther 9:24: "them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy"
Psalms 16:5: "and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot."
Psalms 22:18: "They part my garments lots upon my vesture."
Psalms 125:3: "shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous"
Proverbs 1:14: "Cast in thy lot us; let us all have one purse:"
Proverbs 16:33: " The lot into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD."
Proverbs 18:18: " The lot causeth contentions and parteth between the mighty."
Isaiah 17:14: "he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob"
Isaiah 34:17: "And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever,"
Isaiah 57:6: "they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered"
Jeremiah 13:25: "This is thy lot, of thy measures from me, saith the LORD;"
Ezekiel 24:6: "piece by piece; let no lot fall upon"
Daniel 12:13: "But go thou thy way till the end and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
Joel 3:3: "And they have cast lots my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold"
Obadiah 1:11: "and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even"
Jonah 1:7: "his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this"
Jonah 1:7: "for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon"
Jonah 1:7: "this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah."
Micah 2:5: "that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD."
Nahum 3:10: "of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men"
