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Job 20:7
“Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
גֵּלֶלgêlel · gay'-lel
H1561 · Hebrew
H1561 · Hebrew
- Definition
- dung (plural balls of dung)
- Derivation
- a variation of H1557 (גָּלָל);
- KJV renderings
- dung.
- Grammar
- כְּֽ֭ — preposition
- גֶלֲל — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- וֹ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 4 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ezekiel 4:12Ezekiel 4:15Zephaniah 1:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גֵּלֶל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.