magal · track, encampment

What it means

magal (מַעְגָּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “track, encampment”.

Track or path marked by wheels; also the ring around a camp, perhaps formed by the wagons.

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 ring of the camp: the circle of wagons or troops around it.
2. The path one follows, or one's way of life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tracks ×9
• track ×4
• within the camp enclosure ×2
• encampment ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×7
• Isaiah×2

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  David rose early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army that was going out to the battle line was shouting for war.

• 1 Samuel 26:5

  David arose and came to the place where Saul had camped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the camp enclosure, and the people were camped around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  David and Abishai came to the people by night, and look, Saul was lying asleep within the camp enclosure, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

• Psalms 17:5

  My steps have held fast to your tracks; my footsteps have not been moved.

• Psalms 23:3

  He brings back my soul; he guides me along tracks of righteousness for the sake of his name.

• Psalms 65:11

  You have crowned the year of your goodness, and your tracks drip richness.

• Psalms 140:5

  The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net beside the track; traps they have set for me. Selah.

• Proverbs 2:9

  Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and uprightness, every good track.

• Proverbs 2:15

  whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their tracks;

• Proverbs 2:18

  For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

• Proverbs 4:11

  In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in tracks of uprightness.

• Proverbs 4:26

  Level the track of your feet, and let all your ways be firm.

• Proverbs 5:6

  The path of life she does not level; her tracks wander, and she does not know it.

• Proverbs 5:21

  For before the eyes of YHWH are the ways of a man, and all his tracks he levels.

• Isaiah 26:7

  The path of the righteous is uprightness; you, Upright One, level the track of the righteous.

• Isaiah 59:8

  The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their tracks; their paths they have made crooked for themselves; everyone who walks on them does not know peace.