Heap
גַּלStrong’s H1530gal
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gal is the Hebrew word usually translated “waves its”, “heap” and “heap of”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.”
Meaning
- Heap, spring, wave, billowheap (of stones) · waves (fig. of chastisement of Jehovah) · spring
How it's translated
- waves its 7
- the heap 6
- a heap of 3
- waves their 3
- a heap 2
- heaps 2
- and waves your 2
- for heaps of stones 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 6
- Psalms 5
- Genesis 4
- Isaiah 4
- Job 3
- Joshua 2
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:46And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
- Genesis 31:48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
- Genesis 31:51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
- Genesis 31:52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
- Joshua 7:26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
- Joshua 8:29And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּל gal · heap
: heap/pile 1) heap, spring, wave, billow 1a) heap (of stones) 1a1) over dead body 1a2) alone 1a3) used in ratifying a covenant 1b) waves (fig. of chastisement of Jehovah) 1c) spring Also means: gal (גַּל ": wave" H1530H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAP, noun
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.
- A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons.
- A mass of ruins.“Thou hast made of a city a heap” Isaiah 25:2
All definitions and other forms of “heap”
HEAP, verb transitive
- To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
- To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.“Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--” Job 27:16
- To add something else, in large quantities.
- To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.