Strong's Hebrew · H1566

H1566 gâlaʻ

גָּלַע

gaw-lah'

(inter-) meddle (with).

When gâlaʻ is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

to be obstinate

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Proverbs 18:1

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Proverbs 17:14

To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

Proverbs 20:3

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

When gâlaʻ is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what gâlaʻ means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Proverbs 18:1 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

How weighing a word works

Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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