STRONGS NUMBER H1561


Word Summary
gelel or gel: dung
Original Word: גֵּלֶל
Transliteration: gelel or gel
Phonetic Spelling: (gay'-lel)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dung
Meaning: dung
Strong's Concordance
dung

A variation of galal; dung (plural balls of dung) -- dung.

see HEBREW galal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1561. gelel

or gel [גֵּל‎] noun [masculine] dung (ball of dung, Arabic etc., dung of camels etc., compare Aramaic גַּלָּא‎; on form see Ew§ 255 b Ol§ 150. 163) — suffix גֶּלֲלוֺJob 20:7, plural construct הָאָדָם‎ (צֵאַת‎) גֶּלֲלֵיEzekiel 4:12, 15; — human dung used as fuel 4:12, 15 ׳ג הָאָדָם (צֵאַת)‎; perhaps also Job 20:7, but compare Di, who thinks no reference to fuel, & De who thinks of cattle-dung; (see on Arabic word Wetzst in De). — See also II.גָּלָל‎.

גֻּלָּהּ גֹּל,‎ see גֻּלָּה‎. below