Dung
גָּלָלStrong’s H1557galal (ga-lal)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galal is the Hebrew word usually translated “dung” and “like dung”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.”
Meaning
- Dung
How it's translated
- dung 1
- like dung 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּלָל galal · dung
dung
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dung” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DUNG, noun
[G.]
The excrement of animals.
All definitions and other forms of “dung”
DUNG, verb transitive
To manure with dung
DUNG, verb intransitive
To void excrement.
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.