Definition

something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)

Etymology

from H1556 (גָּלַל);

Where the KJV renders it

• billow
• heap
• spring
• wave

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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