גַּלְגַּל
gal.gal
wheel
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "gal.gal" (H1534) refers to a "wheel." This term appears 11 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in the ancient Hebrew culture. The word's meaning is straightforward, describing a circular object that rotates or turns. The usage of "gal.gal" is primarily as a proper noun, referring to a person. This suggests that the name "Galgal" was given to an individual, possibly due to their association with a wheel or a wheel-like object. The name's significance may be related to the person's occupation, movement, or character. In the context of the Bible, the repeated appearance of "gal.gal" as a proper noun highlights the importance of names in ancient Hebrew culture. Names often conveyed meaning, identity, or characteristics, and in this case, the name "Galgal" may have referenced the person's connection to a wheel or a turning point in their life.
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Occurrences in Scripture
11 total occurrences across the text
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Psalms 83:13My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
Ecclesiastes 12:6before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
Isaiah 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Jeremiah 47:3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Ezekiel 10:2He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” He went in as I watched.
Ezekiel 10:6It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:13As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, “the whirling wheels”.
Ezekiel 23:24They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.
Ezekiel 26:10By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.