Strong’s H1561 · Hebrew
גֵּלֶל
gêlel · gay'-lel
Origin a variation of גָּלָל (H1557);
Meaning dung (plural balls of dung)
In the King James Version dung.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Ezekiel 4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
- Ezekiel 4:15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
- Zephaniah 1:17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.