Wheel
גַּלְגַּלStrong’s H1535galgal (gal-gal)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Galgal is the Aramaic word usually translated “wheels its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Meaning
- Wheel
How it's translated
- wheels its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
גַּלְגַּל galgal · wheel
wheel Aramaic of gal.gal (גַּלְגַּל "wheel" H1534)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.