Bowl
גֹּלStrong’s H1543gol
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gol is the Hebrew word usually translated “springs”, “bowls of” and “springs of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:”
Meaning
- Bowl, basinbasin · bowl
How it's translated
- springs 4
- bowls of 4
- springs of 2
- and bowls of 1
- and the bowls 1
- bowl of 1
- and a bowl 1
- the bowl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Zechariah 2
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:3In contextAnd two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- Joshua 15:19Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
- Judges 1:15And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
- 1 Kings 7:41The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
- 1 Kings 7:42And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
- 2 Chronicles 4:12To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
Hebrew dictionary
גֹּל gol · bowl
1) bowl, basin 1a) basin 1b) bowl 1b1) of a lamp 1b2) of bowl shaped portion of capitals of the two pillars in the temple
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOWL, noun
[In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]
- A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.
- A basin; a fountain.
All definitions and other forms of “bowl”
BOWL, noun
A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.
BOWL, verb intransitive
To play with bowls, or at bowling.
BOWL, verb transitive
To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.
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.