Hebrew verb · H1566
גָּלַע
galagaw-lah'
to quarrel
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâlaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1566is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1566
to be obstinate
The King James renders it: (inter-) meddle (with).
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
gala is rendered "to quarrel". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 17:14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Proverbs 17:14הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he bursts out2
- it has broken out1
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.
2 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
- יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃2
- הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע1
The grammar of each form
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVti3ms
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVtp3ms
Proverbs
three uses
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
- הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗עhitgala'verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has broken out
He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
- יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃yitgala'verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bursts out
It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
- יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃yitgala'verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he bursts out
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.