Gal means “heap” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1530 — eispedao (“rush in”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1530 גַּל (gal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gal (gal) n-m. 1. something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves) [from H1556] It has 31 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include waves, heap, heaps, spring, and waters. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gal (gal) n-m. 1. something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves) [from H1556] KJV: billow, heap, spring, wave. Root(s): H1556
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heap
Usage: : heap/pile 1) heap, spring, wave, billow 1a) heap (of stones) 1a1) over dead body 1a2) alone 1a3) used in ratifying a covenant 1b) waves (fig. of chastisement of Jehovah) 1c) spring Also means: gal (גַּל ": wave" H1530H)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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31 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1530.
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
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 called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
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 waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
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 waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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:
But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
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 pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
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 the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
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 come up.
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.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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 shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
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Gal (Strong's H1530) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "heap". gal (gal) n-m. 1. something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves) [from H1556]
This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's H1530 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1530 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as waves, heap, heaps, spring, and waters. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.