גַּל
gal
heap
Strong's H1530NounHebrewTWOT 353a

גַּל (gal) is a Hebrew noun meaning heap. It appears 34 times in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1530).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 353a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 353a)heap, wave, billow; rollers; spring; rolled, ruins
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

גַּל noun, masculine: heap, wave, billow

Strong's H1530 גַּל: something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
KJV:billow, heap, spring, wave.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 353: גָּלַל gālal — roll, roll away; roll up, along; garment rolled, in blood; roll oneself over and over; commit, remove, run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow

See it in Scripture

Joshua 7:262 Kings 19:25Job 8:17

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