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# גַּלְגַּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1534

**wheel** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1534/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּלְגַּל²: n.m. wheel, whirl, whirlwind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1534/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 12:6 wheel, whirl, whirlwind (on format. cf. BaNB 204)—abs. ג׳ Ez 10:2 + 7 times; גַּלְגַּ֑ל ψ 83:14; pl. c. sf. גַּלְגִּלָּיו Is 5:28 Je 47:3;— wheel, of war-chariot Is 5:28 Je 47:3, also coll. Ez 23:24; 26:10; perhaps also in Ezekiel’s vision Ez 10:2, 6, 13 (cf. wheelwork) but cf. infr. for drawing water Ec 12:6. whirl (of dust or chaff) ψ 83:14 Is 17:13, sim. of foes put to flight by God. perhaps whirling of wheels Ez 10:2, 6, 13 Sm RV; cf. supr. whirlwind or wheel ψ 77:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wheel (4); wheel\[s\] (2); its wheels (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 10:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.13/#tree)

לָא֖וֹפַנִּ֑ים לָהֶ֛ם קוֹרָ֥א הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל בְּאָזְנָֽי׃

*Word for word:* to the wheels to them it.was.called the wheel in ears my

*JPS 1917:* As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork.

[Psalms 77:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.19/#tree)

ק֤וֹל רַעַמְךָ֨ ׀ בַּגַּלְגַּ֗ל הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקִ֣ים תֵּבֵ֑ל רָגְזָ֖ה וַתִּרְעַ֣שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* the.sound your.thunder your \[was\].in the whirlwind they.lit.up lightning.flashes \[the\].world it.trembled and it.shook the earth

*JPS 1917:* The voice of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1534/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).