To abhor
גָּעַלStrong’s H1602gaal (ga-al)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gaal is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will abhor”, “it abhorred” and “abhor them”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.”
Meaning
- To abhor, loathe, be vilely cast away, fall(Qal) to abhor, loathe · (Niphal) to be defiled · (Hiphil) to reject as loathsome, show aversion
How it's translated
- it will abhor 2
- and it will abhor 1
- it abhorred 1
- i will abhor them 1
- it was defiled 1
- it fails 1
- does it abhor 1
- loathed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:15And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
- Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:43The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Leviticus 26:44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
- 2 Samuel 1:21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
- Job 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּעַל gaal · to abhor
1) to abhor, loathe, be vilely cast away, fall 1a) (Qal) to abhor, loathe 1b) (Niphal) to be defiled 1c) (Hiphil) to reject as loathsome, show aversion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOATH, LOATHE, LOATHER, noun
One that lothes.
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.