gaal · abhor

What it means

gaal (גָּעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “abhor”.

Feel a deep rejection for something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To reject something in disgust.
2. To miscarry, not breed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• loathed ×4
• loathe ×3
• fail ×1
• loathes ×1
• was abhorred ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 26:11

  And I will set my dwelling among you, and my soul will not loathe you.

• Leviticus 26:15

  and if you reject my statutes, and if your soul loathes my rules, so that you do not do all my commandments, and you break my covenant,

• Leviticus 26:30

  And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and put your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and my soul will loathe you.

• Leviticus 26:43

  But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the payment for their iniquity, because, yes, because they rejected my rules and their soul loathed my statutes.

• Leviticus 26:44

  Yet even for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them and I will not loathe them so as to destroy them completely and break my covenant with them; for I am YHWH their Elohim.

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• Job 21:10

  Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

• Jeremiah 14:19

  Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there is no good; for a time of healing, and look, terror!

• Ezekiel 16:45

  You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her sons; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

And 1 more times.