Wheel
גַּלְגַּלStrong’s H1534galgal (gal-gal)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galgal is the Hebrew word usually translated “wheel”, “whirlwind” and “like whirling dust”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.”
Meaning
- Wheel, whirl, whirlwind, whirlingwheel · whirl (of dust, chaff)
How it's translated
- the wheel 4
- and wheel 2
- in the whirlwind 1
- like whirling dust 1
- and wheels its 1
- and like whirling dust 1
- wheels its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 83:13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 12:6Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
- Isaiah 5:28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Jeremiah 47:3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
- Ezekiel 10:2And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּלְגַּל galgal · wheel
1) wheel, whirl, whirlwind, whirling 1a) wheel 1b) whirl (of dust, chaff) Aramaic equivalent: gal.gal (גַּלְגַּל "wheel" H1535)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wheel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHEEL, noun
- A circular frame of wood, iron or other metal, consisting of a nave or hub, into which are inserted spokes which sustain a rim or felly; the whole turning on an axis.
- A circular body.
- A carriage that moves on wheels.
- An instrument for torturing criminals; as an examination made by the rack and the wheel
All definitions
- A machine for spinning thread, of various kinds.
- Rotation; revolution; turn; as the vicissitude and wheel of things.
- A turning about; a compass.
- In pottery, a round board turned by a lathe in a horizontal position, on which the clay is shaped by the hand.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.