gilgal · Gilgal

What it means

gilgal (גִּלְגָּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gilgal”.

The name of several places in Canaan; the best known is near the Jordan and Jericho, Israel's first camp in Canaan.

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.

The place

• Gilgal ?

  Today: disputed; near Jericho, West Bank

  A place near Jericho in the Jordan valley; the exact site is not certain.

  Israel camped there after crossing the Jordan and set up twelve stones (Josh 4:19-20). Saul was confirmed as king there (1 Sam 11:15).

  Joshua 4:19Joshua 5:91 Samuel 11:15

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×13
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×13
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Hosea×3
• Amos×3
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Joshua 4:19

  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho.

• Joshua 4:20

  And those twelve stones that they had taken from the Jordan Joshua set up at Gilgal.

• Joshua 5:9

  And YHWH said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.

• Joshua 5:10

  The sons of Israel camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 9:6

  They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “From a land far away we have come; now make a covenant with us.”

• Joshua 10:6

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not let your hands go from your servants. Come up to us quickly, save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorite who live in the hill country have gathered against us.”

• Joshua 10:7

  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty warriors.

• Joshua 10:9

  So Joshua came upon them suddenly; all night he had gone up from Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:15

  Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:43

  Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

• Joshua 12:23

  the king of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

• Joshua 14:6

  Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word that YHWH spoke to Moses the man of Elohim about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.

• Joshua 15:7

  and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

• Judges 2:1

  The angel of YHWH went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you;

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the carved images that are at Gilgal and said, “I have a secret word for you, O king.” He said, “Silence!” And all who were standing by him went out from him.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He would go year by year and make the round of Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and judge Israel in all these places.

• 1 Samuel 10:8

  And you shall go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and look, I am coming down to you to offer up burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and let you know what you are to do.”

• 1 Samuel 11:14

  Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there.”

• 1 Samuel 11:15

  All the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before YHWH in Gilgal, and they sacrificed there sacrifices of peace offerings before YHWH, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

• 1 Samuel 13:4

  All Israel heard it said, “Saul has struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also Israel has become odious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned after Saul at Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 13:7

  And some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people trembled after him.

• 1 Samuel 13:8

  He waited seven days, until the appointed time that Samuel had set; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

• 1 Samuel 13:12

  I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not pleaded before YHWH’; so I forced myself and offered up the burnt offering.”

• 1 Samuel 13:15

  Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul counted the people who were found with him, about six hundred men.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told to Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and look, he is setting up for himself a monument; and he turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took from the spoil animals of the flock and herd, the firstfruits of what was devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to YHWH your Elohim in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:33

  Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked to pieces Agag before YHWH at Gilgal.

• 2 Samuel 19:15

  The king returned and came to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan.

• 2 Samuel 19:40

  The king crossed over to Gilgal, and Chimhan crossed over with him; and all the people of Judah brought across the king, and also half the people of Israel.

• 2 Kings 2:1

  And it happened, when YHWH was about to take up Elijah in the whirlwind to the heavens, that Elijah and Elisha were going from Gilgal.

• 2 Kings 4:38

  Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was the famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his young man, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

• Nehemiah 12:29

  and from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

• Hosea 4:15

  Though you, Israel, prostitute yourself, let not Judah become guilty; and do not come to Gilgal, and do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As YHWH lives.”

• Hosea 9:15

  All their evil is in Gilgal; for there I came to hate them; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer love them; all their princes are rebels.

• Hosea 12:11

  If Gilead is wickedness, surely they have become worthless; in Gilgal they sacrificed bulls; also their altars are like heaps on the furrows of the field.

• Amos 4:4

  Come to Bethel and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring every morning your sacrifices, every three days your tithes.

• Amos 5:5

  And do not seek Bethel, and do not enter Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will become nothing.

• Micah 6:5

  My people, remember, please, what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and of what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteous acts of YHWH.”

And 2 more times.