Hebrew verb · H1351
גָּאַל
gaalgaw-al'
to defile
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâʼal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1351is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1351
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
The King James renders it: defile, pollute, stain.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gaal is rendered "to defile". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Malachi, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 2:62These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Ezra 2:62וַֽיְגֹאֲל֖וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in Malachi.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they were defiled2
- defiled2
- and defiled1
- have we defiled you1
- he defiled himself1
- he will defile himself1
- I have defiled1
- they are defiled1
- they were defiled1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּאַל | gaal | to redeem: redeem | Uses104 |
| גָּאוֹן | gaon | pride | Uses49 |
| גָּאָה | gaah | to rise up | Uses7 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶגְאָֽלְתִּי׃1
- גֵֽאַלְנ֑וּךָ1
- וַיְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ1
- וַֽיְגֹאֲל֖וּ1
- וְנִגְאָלָ֑ה1
- יִתְגָּאַ֛ל1
- יִתְגָּאָֽל׃1
- מְגֹאָ֔ל1
- מְגֹאָ֣ל1
- נְגֹאֲל֣וּ1
- נְגֹֽאֲל֖וּ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VPw3mp2Hc/VPw3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular2HVPsmsa
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVti3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HC/VNrfsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhp1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpp1cp/Sp2ms
Ezra
one use
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- וַֽיְגֹאֲל֖וּvaygoaluHc/VPw3mptagged: and they were defiled
Nehemiah
one use
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- וַיְגֹֽאֲל֖וּvaygoaluHc/VPw3mptagged: and they were defiled
Isaiah
two uses
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- נְגֹאֲל֣וּnegoaluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are defiled
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- אֶגְאָֽלְתִּי׃ʾegaletiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have defiled
Lamentations
one use
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
- נְגֹֽאֲל֖וּnegoaluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were defiled
Daniel
two uses
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- יִתְגָּאַ֛לyitgaalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he defiled himself
- יִתְגָּאָֽל׃yitgaalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will defile himself
Zephaniah
one use
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- וְנִגְאָלָ֑הvenigalahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and defiled
Malachi
three uses
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- מְגֹאָ֔לmegoalverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: defiled
- גֵֽאַלְנ֑וּךָgealnukhaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have we defiled you
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- מְגֹאָ֣לmegoalverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: defiled
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.