galgal · wheel, whirl

What it means

galgal (גַּלְגַּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wheel, whirl”.

A wheel; also a whirlwind, or what the wind whirls around (dust, chaff).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The round part that turns beneath a war chariot or a cart.
2. Something that whirls, like a whirlwind.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wheels ×3
• whirl ×3
• wheel ×2
• like a whirlwind ×1
• like whirling dust ×1
• was in the whirlwind ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Psalms 77:18

  The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightning flashes lit up the world; the earth shuddered and quaked.

• Psalms 83:13

  My Elohim, make them like a whirlwind, like straw before the wind.

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;

• Isaiah 5:28

  Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent; the hooves of its horses are counted like flint, and its wheels like the whirlwind.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Jeremiah 47:3

  at the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rattling of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels; the fathers do not turn back to their children for the slackness of their hands,

• Ezekiel 10:2

  And he spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirl, under the cherub, and fill your cupped hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.

• Ezekiel 10:6

  And it came about, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirl, from between the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheel.

• Ezekiel 10:13

  As for the wheels, they were called “the whirl” in my ears.

• Ezekiel 23:24

  And they will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wheels, and with an assembly of peoples; large shield and shield and helmet they will set against you all around; and I will set before them judgment, and they will judge you according to their judgments.

• Ezekiel 26:10

  From the abundance of his horses their dust will cover you; from the noise of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will quake when he enters your gates as one enters a breached city.