גֵּלֶלgêlel
dung (Job 20:7; Ezekiel 4:12; Ezekiel 4:15)
Pronunciation: gay'-lel · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1561
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 20:7 yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’
- Ezekiel 4:12 Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.”
- Ezekiel 4:15 “All right,” the Lord said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).