גֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1561

dung — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

dung tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּל: dung tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] dung (ball of dung, Arabic جِلَّةٌ etc., dung of camels etc., cf. Aramaic גַּלָּא; on form v. Ew§ 255 b Ol§ 150. 163)—sf. גֶּלֲלוֹ Jb 20:7, pl. cstr. הָאָדָם (צֵאַת) גֶּלֲלֵי Ez 4:12, 15;—human dung used as fuel Ez 4:12, 15 הָאָדָם (צֵאַת) ג׳; perhaps also Jb 20:7, but cf. Di, who thinks no ref. to fuel, & De who thinks of cattle-dung; (v. on Arabic word Wetzst in De).—See also ii. גָּלָל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the dung(s) (2); his own (1).

In the verses

Job 20:7 · tree →

כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃

Word for word: like his.own dung to perpetuity he.will.perish [those who].saw.him they.will.say where.[is] he?

JPS 1917: Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'

Ezekiel 4:12 · tree →

וְעֻגַ֥ת שְׂעֹרִ֖ים תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה וְהִ֗יא בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ צֵאַ֣ת הָֽאָדָ֔ם תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ס

Word for word: and a.bread.cake of.barley(s) you will.eat.it and it in the.dung(s) of.the.excrement of.(the) humankind you will.bake.it to eyes their

JPS 1917: And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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