גָּעַלgâʻal
abhor, loathe
Pronunciation: gaw-al' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1602
Meanings
Qal: abhor, loathe (Leviticus 26:43; Jeremiah 14:19; Leviticus 26:30)
Niph`al: is rejected, cast away (with loathing) (2 Samuel 1:21)
Hiph`il: to reject as loathesome, cast away (semen), or shew aversion (Job 21:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 26:11 I will live among you, and I will not despise you.
- Leviticus 26:15 and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
- Leviticus 26:43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.
- Leviticus 26:44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fruitful fields producing offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty heroes was defiled; the shield of Saul will no longer be anointed with oil.
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).