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).