גּוֹרָל
goral · lot
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1486 · appears 77 times in the Bible
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goral (גּוֹרָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lot”.
A pebble or object used to decide by drawing; also what falls to someone by lot, a share.
How to say it
go·ral
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
- Small stones cast to decide something.
- What falls to one in life.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Lot: the object used for drawing lots, and what fell to someone in the drawing, his portion. BDB: a lot, as cast for drawing; figuratively, a portion or destiny.
- The two lots over the goats Leviticus 16:8
- The land divided “by lot” Numbers 26:55Joshua 14:2Joshua 18:10
- “From YHWH {comes} every decision of it” Proverbs 16:33Jonah 1:7
- “For my clothing they cast lots” Psalms 22:18Joel 3:3
- “Pur… that is, the lot” Esther 3:7
Historical and cultural background
The text shows the practice: Aaron casts lots over the two goats of the day of expiation (Leviticus 16:8); Joshua divides the land by casting a lot in Shiloh “before YHWH” (Joshua 18:10). Esther 3:7 explains the Persian word: “Pur was cast —that is, the lot—”, from which comes the name of the feast of Purim (Esther 9:26).
How we translate it
“Lot” 63 times and “lots” 14. בְּגוֹרָל is “by lot” (Numbers 26:55; Joshua 14:2), so that the drawing and what fell to someone read the same way.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lot ×63
- lots ×14
Where it appears
- Leviticus×5
- Numbers×7
- Joshua×26
- Judges×3
- 1 Chronicles×13
- Nehemiah×2
- Esther×2
- Psalms×3
- Proverbs×3
- Isaiah×3
- Jeremiah×1
- Ezekiel×1
- Daniel×1
- Joel×1
- Obadiah×1
- Jonah×3
- Micah×1
- Nahum×1
- Leviticus 16:8
And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for YHWH and the other lot for Azazel.
- Leviticus 16:9
And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot for YHWH fell and offer it as a sin offering.
- Leviticus 16:10
But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell shall be set alive before YHWH to make expiation over it, to send it away to Azazel into the wilderness.
- Numbers 26:55
But by lot the land shall be divided; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
- Numbers 26:56
According to the lot its inheritance shall be divided between the large and the small.”
- Numbers 33:54
You shall take as inheritance the land by lot according to your families; to the large you shall increase his inheritance, and to the small you shall reduce his inheritance; wherever the lot falls for him, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall take inheritance.
- Numbers 34:13
Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall take as inheritance by lot, which YHWH has commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half tribe.
- Numbers 36:2
They said, “YHWH commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel; and my lord was commanded by YHWH to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
- Numbers 36:3
But if they become wives to one of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
- Joshua 14:2
by lot was their inheritance, just as YHWH had commanded through Moses, for the nine tribes and the half tribe.
- Joshua 15:1
And the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin to the south, at the farthest south.
- Joshua 16:1
And the lot for the sons of Joseph went out from the Jordan by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel;
- Joshua 17:1
And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, he had Gilead and Bashan.
- Joshua 17:14
And the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me as an inheritance one lot and one allotment, when I am a numerous people, since up to now YHWH has blessed me?”
- Joshua 17:17
And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and you have great strength; you shall not have only one lot,
- Joshua 18:6
And you shall write the land in seven portions and bring it to me here, and I will cast for you a lot here before YHWH our Elohim.
- Joshua 18:8
So the men rose and went, and Joshua commanded those who were going to write the land, saying, “Go, and walk about through the land, and write it, and return to me; and here I will cast for you a lot before YHWH in Shiloh.”
- Joshua 18:10
And Joshua cast for them a lot in Shiloh before YHWH; and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.
- Joshua 18:11
And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families came up, and the territory of their lot went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.
- Joshua 19:1
And the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.
- Joshua 19:10
And the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid;
- Joshua 19:17
For Issachar the fourth lot came out, for the sons of Issachar according to their families.
- Joshua 19:24
And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families.
- Joshua 19:32
For the sons of Naphtali the sixth lot came out, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families.
- Joshua 19:40
For the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families the seventh lot came out.
- Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel gave as inheritances by lot in Shiloh before YHWH, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they finished dividing the land.
- Joshua 21:4
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the sons of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, received by lot thirteen cities from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Joshua 21:5
And the rest of the sons of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 21:6
And the sons of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
- Joshua 21:8
And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands, as YHWH had commanded through Moses, by lot.
- Joshua 21:10
and they went to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
- Joshua 21:20
And as for the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the sons of Kohath, the cities of their lot were from the tribe of Ephraim.
- Joshua 21:40
All the cities for the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites: their lot was twelve cities.
- Judges 1:3
Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into my lot, and let us fight against the Canaanite; and I too will go with you into your lot.” And Simeon went with him.
- Judges 20:9
But now this is the thing that we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.
- 1 Chronicles 6:54
And these are their dwelling places according to their encampments within their territory. To the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot,
- 1 Chronicles 6:61
And to the sons of Kohath who remained, from the family of the tribe, from half of the tribe, half of Manasseh, fell by lot ten cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:63
To the sons of Merari, by their families, from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, fell by lot twelve cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:65
And they gave by lot, from the tribe of the sons of Judah, from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities that they call by name.
- 1 Chronicles 24:5
They divided them by lots, these with those, for there were chiefs of the sanctuary and chiefs of Elohim among the sons of Eleazar and among the sons of Ithamar.
And 37 more times.