גֵּלֶל
gelel · dung
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1561 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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gelel (גֵּלֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dung”.
Excrement.
How to say it
ge·lel
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
- Human or animal excrement; dried, it was used to make fire.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Job 20:7
like his dung he will perish forever; those who saw him will say, ‘Where is he?’
- Ezekiel 4:12
And as a barley cake you will eat it; and it you will bake on dung of human excrement before their eyes.”
- Ezekiel 4:15
And he said to me, “See, I have given you the dung of cattle instead of the dung of humans, and you will make your bread on it.”
- Zephaniah 1:17
“And I will bring distress on human beings, and they will walk like the blind, for against YHWH they have sinned; and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.”