To reveal
גָּלָהStrong’s H1540galah (ga-lah)
Appears in 167 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galah is the Hebrew word usually translated “uncover”, “took into exile” and “has uncovered”. It appears in 167 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Benjamin living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.7
- To uncover, remove(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Pual) to be uncovered · (Hiphil) to carry away into exile, take into exile
How it's translated
- you will uncover 14
- he took into exile 6
- he has uncovered 5
- and i will uncover 5
- and he took into exile 5
- he had taken into exile 5
- to uncover 4
- i will uncover 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 25
- Leviticus 20
- Isaiah 16
- 2 Kings 14
- 1 Samuel 13
- Ezekiel 12
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- Genesis 35:7And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- Exodus 20:26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
- Leviticus 18:6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 18:7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:8The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
All 167 verses, by book
- Exodus 1
- 20:26
- Leviticus 20
- 18:618:718:818:918:1018:1118:1218:1318:1418:1518:1618:1718:1818:1920:1120:1720:1820:1920:2020:21
- Judges 1
- 18:30
- 2 Chronicles 1
- 36:20
- Ezra 1
- 2:1
- Nehemiah 1
- 7:6
- Jeremiah 25
- 1:311:2013:1913:2220:420:1222:1224:127:2029:129:429:729:1432:1132:1433:639:940:140:743:349:1052:1552:2752:2852:30
- Daniel 1
- 10:1
Hebrew dictionary
הֶגְלָם galah · Heglam
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.7; son of: Ehud (H0164); brother of: Naaman (H5283J), Ahijah (H0281K), Uzza (H5798H) and Ahihud (H0284); also called Heglam (KJV: "removed"; NIV: "deported") at 1Ch.8.7; Another name of ge.ra (גֵּרָא "Gera" H1617J) to reveal oneself
גָּלָה galah · to reveal
: reveal[information] 1) to uncover, remove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to uncover 1a2) to remove, depart 1a3) to go into exile 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) (reflexive) 1b1a) to uncover oneself 1b1b) to discover or show oneself 1b1c) to reveal himself (of God) 1b2) (passive) 1b2a) to be uncovered 1b2b) to be disclosed, be discovered 1b2c) to be revealed 1b3) to be removed 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to uncover (nakedness) 1c1a) nakedness 1c1b) general 1c2) to disclose, discover, lay bare 1c3) to make known, show, reveal 1d) (Pual) to be uncovered 1e) (Hiphil) to carry away into exile, take into exile …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “reveal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REVE'AL, verb transitive
[Latin revelo; re and velo, to veil.]
- To disclose; to discover; to show; to make known something before unknown or concealed; as, to reveal secrets.
- To disclose, discover or make known from heaven.“The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men” Romans 1:18
All definitions and other forms of “reveal”
REVE'AL, noun
A revealing; disclosure. [Not in use.]
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.