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Wheel

גִּלְגָּלStrong’s H1536

gilgal (gil-gal)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Gilgal is the Hebrew word usually translated “wheel of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.”
Isaiah 28:28 KJV
Meaning
  1. Wheel
How it's translated
  • wheel of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    גִּלְגָּל gilgal · wheel

    wheel

    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

    1. 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.
    2. A circular body.
    3. A carriage that moves on wheels.
    4. An instrument for torturing criminals; as an examination made by the rack and the wheel
    All definitions
    1. A machine for spinning thread, of various kinds.
    2. Rotation; revolution; turn; as the vicissitude and wheel of things.
    3. A turning about; a compass.
    4. 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.