Jon Collins
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Almost 40 of those times is in the book of Ezekiel.
This is the prophet Ezekiel's favorite word to refer to idols.
Gilul essentially refers to turds or poop.
I mean, rabbits have like poop balls.
Okay, well, or rolls, rolled up, maybe cylinders.
You know, I mean, poop has a cylinder shape if it has, if you've got some form to it.
Why is it so funny to talk about poop?
Okay, so what's also great is Ezekiel didn't invent this word, but this is a hybrid word.
The consonants of Gilul are G-L-L or Gimel, Lamed, Lamed.
And that comes from a Hebrew verb galal, which means to roll something up.
like a roll form, like cylinder or ball form.
But the vowels of gilul, i-u, come from the Hebrew word shikutz.
Wait, the vowels come from a different word?