Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. 2. (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. 3. (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. 4. (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. 5. (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. 6. (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia GRAVEL grav'-el (chatsats, from root chatsats, "to divide." Kindred roots have the meaning of "to cut," "to hew," "to sharpen," hence chets, "arrow" (2 Kings 13:17 Psalm 64:7 and often); compare Arabic chacca, "to fall to the lot of," chiccah, "portion"): In Proverbs 20:17, we have: "Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel." And in Lamentations 3:16: "He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes." The only other occurrence of the word is in Psalm 77:17, where it is the equivalent of chets, "arrow" (see supra): "The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad." Proverbs 20:17 and Lamentations 3:16 both suggest the frequent occurrence of grit in the coarse bread, the source of the grit being not necessarily the grindstone, but possibly even small stones originally mingled with the wheat and never properly separated from it. Alfred Ely Day

Multi-Version Concordance Gravel (3 Occurrences) Proverbs 20:17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. (KJV DBY WBS YLT) Lamentations 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)