Word

גָּעַל

gâʻal · H1602 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

to reject, to loathe, to abhor

State in which humans or deities are deeply revulsed by other humans or deities, as if they are dirty

Examples
Leviticus 26:11 ‘Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
Leviticus 26:15 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to break My covenant,
Leviticus 26:30 ‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and pile your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you.
to fail to impregnate

State in which a male animal is unable to impregnate a female

Examples
Job 21:10 “His ox mates without fail; His cow calves and does not miscarry.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 5 groups

נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 5
מָגֵןshield 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

6 occurrences in 6 groups

כֶםyou 2
בֵּןson 1
חֻקָּהstatute, ordinance 1
אִישׁman, person, each 1
מִשְׁפָּטjustice, judgment, ordinance 1
הֶםthem 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ צִיּוֹןZion 1
לto/for+ עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

With adverbsAdverbs

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 3
שָׁםthere 1

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 1
אִישׁman, person, each 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵםmother 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Unwilling002001002031: The verb describes loathing or rejecting with revulsion, used of the LORD's soul abhorring a rebellious people who reject his statutes.
Unable002001001065: This code is inherited from the shared listing with a related figurative sense of failing or coming to nothing rather than an independent feature of the specific citations reviewed here.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גָּעַלgâʻal · H1602גֹּעַל gôʻal · H1604 · rejected, loathed, abhorred · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1602. gaal גָּעַל verb abhor, loathe (Late Hebrew געל Nithpa.be fouled, Hiph`il rinse…

H1602. gaal
גָּעַל verb abhor, loathe (Late Hebrew געל Nithpa.be fouled,
Hiph`il rinse out with hot water; גְּעִילָה rejection; Aramaic געל Ithpe`el be fouled, soiled) —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular נָָּֽעֲלָה Lev 26:43; Jer 14:19, וְגָָֽעֲלָה consecutive Lev 26:30; גְּעַלְתִּים Lev 26:44; גָָּֽעֲלוּ Eze 16:45; Imperfect3feminine singular תִּגְעַל Lev 26:11, Lev 26:15; Participle feminine גֹּעֶ֫לֶת Eze 16:45 (twice in verse); — abhor, loathe, (usually with accusative), Yahweh, his people Lev 26:11, Lev 26:30, Lev 26:44 (H) Jer 14:19 (with בְּ); the people, Yahweh's statutes Lev 26:15, Lev 26:43 (H); Eze 16:45 (twice in verse) women their husbands (figurative, in prophecy against Jerusalem).
Niph`al גִּבּוֺרִים מָגֵן נִגְעַל 2Sa 1:21 the shield of heroes was defiled RVm VB Kirkp. but < is rejected, cast away (with loathing) Dr, compare Klo; ᵐ5 προσωχθίσθη.
Hiph`il Imperfect יַֹגְעִ֑ל וְלֹא עִבַּר שׁוֺרוֺ Job 21:10; and doth not cause, or allow, (the cow) to reject as loathesome Ra De, compare Di1; Di2, however, of bull, cast away (semen), or shew aversion.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Unable1 occurrence Unwilling9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0