Lexical Definition

‎גַּל‎ gal (gal) heap ^H:N-M
from ‎גָּלַל‎

billow, heap, spring, wave.

• something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)

1) heap, spring, wave, billow
1a) heap (of stones)
1a1) over dead body
1a2) alone
1a3) used in ratifying a covenant
1b) waves (fig. of chastisement of Jehovah)
1c) spring

See Greek: ἀφανισμός · βουνός · κῦμα · συναγωγή

Extended Information

• : heap/pile
• Also means: gal (‎ג‎ַּ‎ל‎ ": wave" גַּל)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎גַּל‎ noun masculine^{Gen 31:48} heap, wave, billow (as rolled together, rolling, rolling up), also spring, ᵑ0 Song 4:12 compare 3 below — absolute ‎גַּל‎ Job 8:17 + 5 t. (including ‎הַגַּל‎ Gen 31:48 +); ‎גָּ֑ל‎ Gen 31:46 ‎הַגָּ֑ל‎ Gen 31:46 ‎לַגָּ֑ל‎ Isa 25:2 construct ‎גַּלֿ‎ Josh 7:26 + 2t. + Gen 31:47; Gen 31:48 q.see below; plural ‎גַּלִּים‎ 2Kgs 19:25 + 6 t.; construct ‎גַּלֵּיֿ‎ Isa 48:18 suffix ‎גַּלָּיו‎ Ps 89:10* + 6 t.; ‎גַּלֵּיהֶם‎ Ps 65:8* + 2 t.; —

1. heap of stones,
a. ‎אבנים‎ ‎׳‎‎ג‎ raised (‎הקים‎) over dead body Josh 7:26; Josh 8:29 compare 2Sam 18:17 (with ‎הִצִּיב‎).
b. ‎גַּל‎ alone Job 8:17 (roots wrapped about it).
c. heap or pile made (‎עשׂה‎) for use in ratifying compact of Jacob with Laban Gen 31:46 (twice in verse); Gen 31:48; Gen 31:51; Gen 38:52; Gen 31:52 (twice in verse) compare also ‎גַּלְעֵד‎ proper name, dual heap of ruins Isa 25:2 elsewhere plural Hos 12:12*; 2Kgs 19:25 = Isa 37:26; Job 15:28; Jer 9:10*; Jer 51:37.

2. waves (rollers) in poetry, only plural, waves of sea Jer 5:22; Jer 31:35; Isa 51:15; Job 38:11; Ps 65:8*; Ps 89:10*; Ps 107:25; Ps 107:29 compare also in simile Ezek 26:3; Isa 48:18 (‎גַּלֵּיהַֿיָּם‎); figurative of chastisements from ‎׳‎‎י‎ Ps 42:8* (|| ‎מִשְׁבָּרִים‎) Jonah 2:3* (|| id.); of army of Babylon's conqueror Jer 51:42; Jer 51:55 compare Zech 10:11 (VB; but Bev^{JPh xviii. 88} proposes ‎גִּבְלִים‎ compare Ezek 27:9).

3. spring, Song 4:12 ‎גַּן נָעוּל אֲחוֺתִי כַּלָּ֑ה גַּל נָעוּל מַעְיָן חָתוּם‎ a garden barred (is) my sister, bride, a spring barred, a fountain sealed; but ‎גַּן‎ for ‎גַּל‎ ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ9.

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