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# גִּלְגָּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1536

**wheel** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּלְגָּל: wheel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wheel (on format. cf. BaNB 204) of cart, גִּלְגַּל עֶגְלָתוֹ Is 28:28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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: the wheel (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.28/#tree)

לֶ֣חֶם יוּדָ֔ק כִּ֛י לֹ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח אָד֣וֹשׁ יְדוּשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְ֠הָמַם גִּלְגַּ֧ל עֶגְלָת֛וֹ וּפָרָשָׁ֖יו לֹֽא־יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* bread it.is.crushed (dm) not to perpetuity continually.(thresh) anyone threshes.it and he.sets.in.motion the.wheel his.cart his and horses his not he crushes.it

*JPS 1917:* Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/): 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).