Track
מַעְגָּלStrong’s H4570magal (ma-gal)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Magal is the Hebrew word usually translated “camp”, “tracks of” and “tracks her”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.”
Meaning
- Entrenchment, trackcircumvallation, entrenchment · track
How it's translated
- in the camp 2
- in tracks of 2
- tracks her 2
- track of 2
- the camp towards 1
- in tracks your 1
- and tracks your 1
- a track 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 7
- Psalms 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Isaiah 2
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 26:5And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
- Psalms 17:5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
- Psalms 23:3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- Psalms 65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
- Psalms 140:5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעְגָּל magal · track
1) entrenchment, track 1a) circumvallation, entrenchment 1b) track
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “track” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRACK, noun
- A mark left by something that has passed along; as the track of a ship, a wake; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or sleigh.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast.
- A road; a beaten path.
- Course; way; as the track of a comet.
All definitions and other forms of “track”
TRACK, verb transitive
To follow when guided by a trace, or by the footsteps, or marks of the feet; as, to track a deer in the snow.
- To tow; to draw a boat on the water in a canal.
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.