גַּל gal
Hebrew word for “heap” · Strong’s H1530 · used 34 times in 31 verses
Meaning
: heap/pile; 1) heap, spring, wave, billow;
Senses in the lexicon
- heap (18)
- heap: wave (16)
How it is translated
Glosses given for gal in context, with how often each is used:
- waves 14
- heap 12
- heaps of stones 3
- heaps 2
- like heaps of stones 1
- spring 1
- like the waves 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Joshua | 2 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Jonah | 1 | 1.5 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 31 (4), Jeremiah 51 (3), Psalms 107 (2), Joshua 7 (1), Joshua 8 (1), 2 Samuel 18 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), Job 8 (1), Job 15 (1), Job 38 (1)
Forms
- גל 6
- הגל 6
- גליו 6
- גלים 3
- לגלים 3
- גליהם 3
- וגליך 2
- לגל 1
- כגלים 1
- גליך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with gal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָם yam “sea” 10
- הָמָה hamah “to roar” 4
- אֶבֶן even “stone” 5
- בָּצַר batsar “to gather/restrain/fortify” 3
- עִיר ir “city” 6
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 5
- שָׁאָה shaah “to crash” 2
- מִשְׁבָּר mishbar “wave” 2
- שָׁלַךְ shalakh “to throw” 3
- נָצָה natsah “to struggle” 2
- זֶה zeh “this” 5
- גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 4
Key verses
The verses using gal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Joshua 7:26 — And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was…
- Psalms 42:7 — Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
- Isaiah 37:26 — Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay…
- Isaiah 48:18 — O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- Jeremiah 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot…
- Jeremiah 9:11 — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when…
- Jeremiah 51:37 — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 26:3 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to…
- Hosea 12:11 — Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
- Zechariah 10:11 — And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria…
See all 31 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.