gula · spring, bowl

What it means

gula (גֻּלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spring, bowl”.

A spring of water; also a bowl or a round thing.

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. Water welling up.
2. A deep vessel, or a sphere.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• globes ×6
• springs ×6
• bowl ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×3
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Zechariah×2

• Joshua 15:19

  And she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

• Judges 1:15

  She said to him, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

• 1 Kings 7:41

  two pillars, and the globes of the capitals that were on the head of the pillars, two; and the two nets to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the head of the pillars;

• 1 Kings 7:42

  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two nets, two rows of pomegranates for each net, to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• 2 Chronicles 4:12

  two pillars, and the globes and the capitals on the top of the pillars, two; and the two nets to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

• 2 Chronicles 4:13

  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two nets, two rows of pomegranates for each net, to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;

• Zechariah 4:2

  And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I have seen, and look, a lampstand all of gold, and its bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it; seven and seven pipes for the lamps that are on its top.

• Zechariah 4:3

  And two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and one on its left.”

And 6 more times.