Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1561
גֵּלֶל
gelelgay'-lel
dung
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gêlel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1561is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1561
dung (plural balls of dung)
The King James renders it: dung.
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
gelel is rendered "dung". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Job 20:7כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dungs of1
- in dungs of1
- like own dung his1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙1
- גֶּלְלֵ֣י1
- כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Job
one use
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹkegelalopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: like own dung his
Ezekiel
two uses
And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
- בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙begeleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in dungs of
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
- גֶּלְלֵ֣יgeleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: dungs of
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.