ge.lel denotes dung, used for fuel in food preparation and as an image of perishing or ruined flesh.

The term denotes dung in practical preparation of food and in comparisons that portray destruction, perishing, or flesh cast out.

1. Dung used in preparation and comparison · dominant

   In Ezekiel 4:12 and Ezekiel 4:15, plural construct forms occur in instructions about baking or making food upon human or cattle excrement; the APB renders these clauses with “human excrement” and “cattle dung.” In Job 20:7, the singular construct form occurs in a comparison of a person's permanent perishing, while Zephaniah 1:17 uses a plural absolute form in comparing flesh to dung; the APB renders those comparisons “like dung.”

   Ezekiel 4:12Ezekiel 4:15Job 20:7Zephaniah 1:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “human excrement,” “cattle dung,” and “dung” in comparisons. These are renderings within whole-verse translations.