gal · heap, wave

What it means

gal (גַּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heap, wave”.

Heap of stones. In other passages, wave.

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. Stones piled up, or ruins.
2. The rising swell of the sea.
3. Water that rises from the ground and that someone keeps as their own.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• waves ×15
• heap ×12
• heaps ×6
• fountain ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Joshua×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×5
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 31:46

  And Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather stones.” They took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.

• Genesis 31:48

  Laban said, “This heap is a witness between me and you today.” That is why its name was called Galeed,

• Genesis 31:51

  Laban said to Jacob, “Look at this heap, and look at the standing stone that I have set up between me and you.

• Genesis 31:52

  This heap is a witness, and the standing stone is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this standing stone to me, for harm.

• Joshua 7:26

  And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. Then YHWH turned from the burning of his anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.

• Joshua 8:29

  And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua gave command, and they took down his corpse from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which is there to this day.

• 2 Samuel 18:17

  They took Absalom and threw him into the forest, into the great pit, and they raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled, each to his tents.

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Job 8:17

  Over a heap of stones his roots are entwined; he sees a house of stones.

• Job 15:28

  and he dwelt in cities wiped out, in houses that no one lives in, that were destined to become heaps of stones.

• Job 38:11

  and said, ‘As far as here you may come, and no farther; and here a limit shall be set to the haughtiness of your waves’?

• Psalms 42:7

  Deep calls to deep at the voice of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves over me have passed.

• Psalms 65:7

  who stills the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples.

• Psalms 89:9

  You rule the pride of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

• Psalms 107:25

  And he spoke and raised up a wind of storm, and it lifted high its waves.

• Psalms 107:29

  He made the storm a calm, and their waves were hushed.

• Song of Songs 4:12

  A garden locked is my sister, bride, a fountain locked, a spring sealed.

• Isaiah 25:2

  For you have made the city into a heap, the fortified town into a ruin, the palace of strangers no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.

• Isaiah 37:26

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Isaiah 48:18

  If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

• Isaiah 51:15

  And I am YHWH your Elohim, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Jeremiah 5:22

  Do you not fear me? declares YHWH. Do you not tremble before me, who placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, an eternal decree, and it cannot pass beyond it? And they toss, but they cannot prevail; and its waves roar, but they cannot pass beyond it.

• Jeremiah 9:11

  And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a lair of jackals, and the cities of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitant.”

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name:

• Jeremiah 51:37

  And Babylon will become heaps, a lair of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 51:42

  The sea has come up over Babylon; with the multitude of its waves she is covered.

• Jeremiah 51:55

  For YHWH is devastating Babylon, and he will destroy from her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the tumult of their voice is raised.

• Ezekiel 26:3

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations, as the sea brings up its waves.

• Hosea 12:11

  If Gilead is wickedness, surely they have become worthless; in Gilgal they sacrificed bulls; also their altars are like heaps on the furrows of the field.

• Jonah 2:3

  You cast me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me; all your breakers and your waves passed over me.

• Zechariah 10:11

  And distress will pass through the sea, and he will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the rod of Egypt will depart.

And 3 more times.