Hebrew verb · H1602
גָּעַל
gaalgaw-al'
to abhor
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâʻal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1602is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1602
to detest; by implication, to reject
The King James renders it: abhor, fail, lothe, vilely cast away.
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 abhor". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
Leviticus 26:11תִגְעַ֥ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's ten uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it will abhor2
- and it will abhor1
- does it abhor1
- I will abhor them1
- it abhorred1
- it fails1
- it was defiled1
- loathed1
- they loathed1
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 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- גָּעֲלָ֥ה1
- גָּעֲלָ֣ה1
- גָּֽעֲ֙לוּ֙1
- גֹּעֶ֥לֶת1
- גְעַלְתִּים֙1
- וְגָעֲלָ֥ה1
- יַגְעִ֑ל1
- נִגְעַל֙1
- תִגְעַ֥ל1
- תִּגְעַ֣ל1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqp3fs
- Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqp1cs/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1HVqrfsa
Leviticus
five uses
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
- תִגְעַ֥לtigalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will abhor
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- תִּגְעַ֣לtigalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will abhor
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
- וְגָעֲלָ֥הvegaalahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will abhor
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
- גָּעֲלָ֥הgaalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it abhorred
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
- גְעַלְתִּים֙gealtimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will abhor them
2 Samuel
one use
O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- נִגְעַל֙nigalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was defiled
Job
one use
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- יַגְעִ֑לyagilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it fails
Jeremiah
one use
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- גָּעֲלָ֣הgaalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: does it abhor
Ezekiel
two uses
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
- גֹּעֶ֥לֶתgoeletverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: loathed
- גָּֽעֲ֙לוּ֙gaaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they loathed
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.