גֵּל“dung”The word gelel, "dung," is the shape this Hebrew noun takes when it is joined to whatever it belongs to: "dung of a human being" in Ezekiel's sign of the besieged city, and "his own dung" in Job's picture of the wicked man's end. It is the better-known of the family's two shapes, because of Ezekiel 4, where the prophet is told to bake his bread over human waste. It means exactly what the standing form galal means, animal or human excrement; the two are one word, and only its spelling shifts according to how it sits in the sentence.