# גָּאַל (gaal)

Israeli respelling: ga-al. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1351. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

to soil or (figuratively) desecrate

King James renderings: defile, pollute, stain.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gaal-h1351

## Occurrences

- [Ezra 2:62](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/62) — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put fro…
- [Nehemiah 7:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/64) — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from t…
- [Isaiah 59:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/3) — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- [Isaiah 63:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/3) — I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my f…
- [Lamentations 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/14) — They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
- [Daniel 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/8) — But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: th…
- [Zephaniah 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/1) — Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
- [Malachi 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/7) — Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
- [Malachi 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/12) — But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.