Strong's Definition
by reduplication from 1556; a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
KJV Usage: heaven, rolling thing, wheel
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גַּלְגַּל (gal.gal) — wheel. 1) wheel, whirl, whirlwind, whirling 1a) wheel 1b) whirl (of dust, chaff) Aramaic equivalent: gal.gal (גַּלְגַּל "wheel" H1535)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · גלל
Vehicles
wheel = ring or round disk with a rod (axle) running through its center or hub; either made of a solid piece of wood or a central hub connected with several spokes to an outer rim; ◄ made of wood and sometimes partly of iron; ► used to help vehicles move over the ground
PSA 77:19 · ISA 5:28 · JER 47:3 · EZK 10:2 · EZK 10:6 · EZK 10:13 · DAN 7:9
Wells and Cisterns
pulley = ring or round disk with a rod (axle) running through its center or hub; either made as a solid piece of wood or a central hub connected with several spokes to an outher rim, with a grooved rim around which a cord passes; ◄ made of wood and sometimes partly of iron; ► used to raise and lower jars into a well
Vehicles | ≈ רֶכֶב
cart, wagon, chariot = two or four-wheeled carriage or cart, used for travel or the transport of loads; pulled by draft animals, such as oxen, donkeys, or horses
Plants
tumbleweed = any of several plants that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as they go; ≈ associated with things that lack weight and substance and do not endure
1 PSA 77:19 NJPS CEV "wheels" GNT "rolled out" | RSV NIV NRSV REB ESV "whirlwind" 2 PSA 83:14 NIV "tumbleweed" NJPS REB "thistledown" | "RSV NRSV ESV "whirling dust" GNT CEV "dust" 3 ISA 17:13 NIV NJPS "tumbleweed" = REB "thistledown" | "RSV NRSV ESV "whirling dust" GNT CEV "dust"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גַּלְגַּל n.m. wheel, whirl, whirlwind base
