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H1534 גַּלְגַּל (galgal) gal-gal'
Hebrew
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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

ECC 12:6

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

EZK 23:24 · EZK 26:10

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

PSA 83:14 · ISA 17:13

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

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