BDB1647
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 BevJPh 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
.