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# גָּעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1602

**abhor** — used 10 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

abhor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1602/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּעַל: vb. abhor, loathe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1602/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. abhor, loathe (NH געל Nithpa. be fouled, Hiph. rinse out with hot water; גְּעִילָה rejection; Aramaic געל Ithpe. be fouled, soiled)— Pf. 3 fs. גָּֽעֲלָה Lv 26:43 Je 14:19, וְגָֽעֲלָה cons. Lv 26:30; גְּעַלְתִּים Lv 26:44; גָּֽעֲלוּ Ez 16:45; Impf. 3 fs. תִּגְעַל Lv 26:11, 15; Pt. f. גֹּעֶ֫לֶת Ez 16:45;—abhor, loathe, (usually c. acc.), Yahweh, his people Lv 26:11, 30, 44 (H) Je 14:19 (c. בְּ); the people, Yahweh’s statutes, Lv 26:15, 43 (H); Ez 16:45(×2) women their husbands (fig., in proph. ag. Jerusalem). נִגְעַל מָגֵן גִּבּוֹרִים 2 S 1:21 the shield of heroes was defiled RVm VB Kirkp. but is rejected, cast away (with loathing) Dr, cf. Klo; 𝔊 προσωχθίσθη. Impf. שׁוֹרוֹ עִבַּר וְלֹא יַגְעִ֑ל Jb 21:10; and doth not cause, or allow, (the cow) to reject as loathesome Ra De, cf. Di1; Di2, however, of bull, cast away (semen), or shew aversion.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: it will abhor (3); I (1); \[who\] abhorred (1).

## In the verses

[Job 21:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.10/#tree)

שׁוֹר֣וֹ עִ֭בַּר וְלֹ֣א יַגְעִ֑ל תְּפַלֵּ֥ט פָּ֝רָת֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א תְשַׁכֵּֽל׃

*Word for word:* bull his it.impregnates and not it.fails it.calves cow his and not it.miscarries

*JPS 1917:* Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

[Leviticus 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.11/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֥י מִשְׁכָּנִ֖י בְּתוֹכְכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־תִגְעַ֥ל נַפְשִׁ֖י אֶתְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.put place my.dwelling among you and not it.will.abhor self my you

*JPS 1917:* And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1602.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1602/): 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).