galal · roll

What it means

galal (גָּלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “roll”.

Roll away; figuratively, commit (one's way) to someone.

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 turn something over and over, or wallow.
2. To place your way on YHWH.
3. To take away a shame.
4. To fall upon someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Roll ×8
• rolled ×4
• Commit ×3
• he may assail ×1
• lay wallowing ×1
• whoever rolls ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Joshua×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 29:3

  When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put back the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.

• Genesis 29:8

  They said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 43:18

  The men were afraid because they were brought into the house of Joseph, and they said, “Because of the matter of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time we are being brought in, so that he may assail us, fall upon us, and take us as slaves, and our donkeys.”

• Joshua 5:9

  And YHWH said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave and appoint men by it to guard them.

• 1 Samuel 14:33

  They told Saul, saying, “Look, the people are sinning against YHWH by eating with the blood.” He said, “You have acted treacherously. Roll to me today a large stone.”

• 2 Samuel 20:12

  Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stopped, he moved Amasa from the highway into the field and threw a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stopped.

• Job 30:14

  As through a wide breach they come; under the desolation they roll about.

• Psalms 22:8

  “Commit yourself to YHWH; let him bring him to safety, let him deliver him, for he delighted in him.”

• Psalms 37:5

  Commit to YHWH your way, and trust in him, and he will act.

• Psalms 119:22

  Roll away from me reproach and contempt, for your testimonies I have guarded.

• Proverbs 16:3

  Commit to YHWH your works, and your thoughts will be established.

• Proverbs 26:27

  Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone, on him it will come back.

• Isaiah 9:5

  For every boot of the one tramping in tumult, and the cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

• Isaiah 34:4

  And all the army of the heavens will dissolve, and the heavens will be rolled up like a book, and all their army will fade as a leaf fades from the vine, and as what fades from the fig tree.

• Jeremiah 51:25

  Look, I am against you, destroying mountain, declares YHWH, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a mountain of burning.

• Amos 5:24

  But let justice roll on like the waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.