Gâʻal — H1602

Definition

verb

to detest; by implication, to reject

1. to abhor, loathe, be vilely cast away, fall
1. (Qal) to abhor, loathe
2. (Niphal) to be defiled
3. (Hiphil) to reject as loathsome, show aversion

Usually translated as

abhor, fail, lothe, vilely cast away

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Gâʻal occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (5), 2 Samuel (1), Job (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Leviticus 26:11 — And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor (תִגְעַ֥ל) you.
• Leviticus 26:15 — And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor (תִּגְעַ֣ל) my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
• Leviticus 26:30 — And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor (וְגָעֲלָ֥ה) you.
• Leviticus 26:43 — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred (גָּעֲלָ֥ה) my statutes.
• Leviticus 26:44 — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor (גְעַלְתִּים֙) them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
• 2 Samuel 1:21 — Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away (נִגְעַל֙), the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
• Job 21:10 — Their bull gendereth, and faileth (יַגְעִ֑ל) not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
• Ezekiel 16:45 — Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that (גֹּעֶ֥לֶת) lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.