Dung
גֵּלStrong’s H1561gelel (ge-lel)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gelel is the Hebrew word usually translated “like own dung his” and “dung of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?”
Meaning
- Dung, ball of dung
How it's translated
- like own dung his 1
- in dung of 1
- dung of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּל gelel · dung
dung, ball of 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.