Galgal — H1534

Definition

masculine noun

a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)

1. wheel, whirl, whirlwind, whirling
1. wheel
2. whirl (of dust, chaff)

Usually translated as

wheel, heaven, rolling thing

Origin

by reduplication from H1556

• Derived from Gâlal (H1556)

Greek equivalents

• trochós (G5164)

Occurrences

Galgal occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (2), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (5)

• Psalms 77:18 — The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven (בַּגַּלְגַּ֗ל): the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
• Psalms 83:13 — O my God, make them like a wheel (כַגַּלְגַּ֑ל); as the stubble before the wind.
• Ecclesiastes 12:6 — Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel (הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל) broken at the cistern.
• Isaiah 5:28 — Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels (וְגַלְגִּלָּ֖יו) like a whirlwind:
• Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing (וּכְגַלְגַּ֖ל) before the whirlwind.
• Jeremiah 47:3 — At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels (גַּלְגִּלָּ֑יו), the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
• Ezekiel 10:2 — And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels (לַגַּלְגַּ֜ל), even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
• Ezekiel 10:6 — And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels (לַגַּלְגַּ֔ל), from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
• Ezekiel 10:13 — As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel (הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל).
• Ezekiel 23:24 — And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels (וְגַלְגַּל֙), and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
• Ezekiel 26:10 — By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels (וְגַלְגַּ֜ל), and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.