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# גַּעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1603

**Gaal** — used 9 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

Gaal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1603/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּ֫עַל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1603/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. appar. a Canaanite, son of עֶבֶד (but cf. VB) Ju 9:26, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gaal (8); of Gaal (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.39/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣צֵא גַ֔עַל לִפְנֵ֖י בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֑ם וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם בַּאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Gaal before the.citizens of.Shechem and he.fought against Abimelech

*JPS 1917:* And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

[Judges 9:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.30/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע זְבֻל֙ שַׂר־הָעִ֔יר אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֖י גַּ֣עַל בֶּן־עָ֑בֶד וַיִּ֖חַר אַפּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Zebul the.official of the.city (et) the.words of.Gaal the.son of.Ebed and it.burned anger his

*JPS 1917:* And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1603.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1603/): 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).