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עֲגָלָהStrong’s H5699

agalah (a-ga-lah)

Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Agalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cart”, “carts” and “on the cart”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

“Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.”
Genesis 45:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cart, wagon
How it's translated
  • the cart 6
  • a cart 5
  • the carts 4
  • carts 3
  • on the cart 2
  • in the carts 1
  • carts of 1
  • and the cart 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 5
  • Genesis 4
  • Numbers 4
  • Isaiah 3
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

8 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

עֲגָלָה agalah · cart

cart, wagon

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cart” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CART, noun

  1. A carriage with two wheels, fitted to be drawn by one horse, or by a yoke of oxen, and used in husbandry or commercial cities for carrying heavy commodities.
  2. A carriage in general.
All definitions and other forms of “cart”

    CART, verb transitive

    1. To carry or convey on a cart; as, to cart hay.
    2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

    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.