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# גָּלָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1557

**dung** — used 2 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1557/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּלָל: dung [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1557/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] dung (Arabic جَلَّةٌ ), הַגּ׳ 1 K 14:10; גְּלָלִים Zp. 1:17.—See also \[גֵּל\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 1:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.17/#tree)

וַהֲצֵרֹ֣תִי לָאָדָ֗ם וְהָֽלְכוּ֙ כַּֽעִוְרִ֔ים כִּ֥י לַֽיהוָ֖ה חָטָ֑אוּ וְשֻׁפַּ֤ךְ דָּמָם֙ כֶּֽעָפָ֔ר וּלְחֻמָ֖ם כַּגְּלָלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.cause.distress to (the) humankind and they.will.walk like.(the) blind \[people\] (dm) to Yahweh they.have.sinned and it.will.be.poured.out blood their like (the) dust and bowel\[s\] their like (the) dung(s)

*JPS 1917:* And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

[1 Kings 14:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.10/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֤יא רָעָה֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית יָרָבְעָ֔ם וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י לְיָֽרָבְעָם֙ מַשְׁתִּ֣ין בְּקִ֔יר עָצ֥וּר וְעָז֖וּב בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּבִֽעַרְתִּי֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י בֵית־יָרָבְעָ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יְבַעֵ֥ר הַגָּלָ֖ל עַד־תֻּמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore here I \[am\].about.to.bring calamity to the.house of.Jeroboam and I.will.cut.off to Jeroboam \[one.who\].urinates on a.wall shut.up and freed in Israel and I.will.sweep.away behind the.house of.Jeroboam just as someone.sweeps.away (the) dung until it is.complete

*JPS 1917:* therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1557.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1557/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).