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גֵּל
- Transliteration
- gêlel
- Pronunciation
- gay'-lel
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
dung, ball, dung.
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(1. ) Used as manure (Luke 13:8); This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
dung, ball, dung.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
dung, dung.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
dung, dung.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
dung, dung. Also חֲרִי.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
dung, dung.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
dung
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
dung
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
ash-heap, refuse-heap, dung, fire-place stones, dung (hill).
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
dung.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 24
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Dictionary
It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are found in Hebrew to denote coal, both occurring in Prov. 26:21, "As coal [Heb. peham; i.e., "black coal"] is to burning coal [Heb. gehalim]." The latter of these words is used in Job 41:21; Prov. 6:28; Isa. 44:19. The words "live coal" in Isa. 6:6 are more correctly "glowing stone." In Lam. 4:8 the expression "blacker than a coal" is literally rendered in the margin of the Revised Version "darker than blackness." "Coals of fire" (2 Sam. 22:9, 13; Ps. 18:8, 12, 13, etc.) is an expression used metaphorically for lightnings proceeding from God. A false tongue is compared to "coals of juniper" (Ps. 120:4; James 3:6). "Heaping coals of fire on the head" symbolizes overcoming evil with good. The words of Paul (Rom. 12:20) are equivalent to saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in the crucible."
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(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the Jews (2 Kings 18:27; Isa. 36:12). This name, however, is applied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, and there is room for the opinion of those who think that some such substance is here referred to, as, e.g., the seeds of a kind of millet, or a very inferior kind of pulse, or the root of the ornithogalum, i.e., bird-milk, the star-of-Bethlehem.
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(Neh. 2:13), a gate of ancient Jerusalem, on the south-west quarter. "The gate outside of which lay the piles of sweepings and offscourings of the streets," in the valley of Tophet.
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To sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection (1 Sam. 2:8; Ps. 113:7; Lam. 4:5).
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(1.) Used as manure (Luke 13:8); collected outside the city walls (Neh. 2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp (Ex. 29:14; Lev. 4:11; 8:17; Num. 19:5). To be "cast out as dung," a figurative expression (1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37; Jer. 8:2; Ps. 18:42), meaning to be rejected as unprofitable. (2.) Used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with difficulty procured in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek. 4:12-15), where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this purpose.
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