Word

גַּעַל

Gaʻal · H1603 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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Person

Gaalfirst named in Judges 9:269 verses

Meanings

Gaal

Man; son of Ebed; opponent of Abimelech, son of Gideon, during the time of the Judges

Examples
Judges 9:26 Now Gaal the son of Ebed came with his relatives, and crossed over into Shechem; and the leaders of Shechem trusted him.
Judges 9:28 Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is Zebul not his governor? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
Judges 9:30 When Zebul the leader of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 5

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 5 groups

יָצָאto go out 2
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 2
יָסַףto add 1
אָמַרto say 1
רָאָהto see 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

גָּרַשׁto drive out, to expel 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דָּבָרword, thing, matter 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 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Gaal names the son of Ebed who led a rebellion against Abimelech at Shechem, gaining the leaders' trust before being driven out.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1603. Gaal גַּ֫עַל proper name, masculine apparently a Canaanite, son of עֶבֶד (but…

H1603. Gaal
גַּ֫עַל proper name, masculine apparently a Canaanite, son of עֶבֶד (but compare VB) Jdg 9:26, Jdg 9:28, Jdg 9:30, Jdg 9:31, Jdg 9:35, Jdg 9:36, Jdg 9:37, Jdg 9:39, Jdg 9:41.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People9 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