גַּלְגַּל
galgal · H1535 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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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
ExamplesDaniel 7:9 “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּרfiery 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- אוֹפָן ʼôwphân · H212 · wheel
- Both words denote a wheel as a concrete object, two distinct Hebrew words for the same concrete referent.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Vehicles001003001001019
- Daniel 7:9 recounts Daniel's vision of the Ancient of Days, “His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.”
- Wells and Cisterns001003002013
- This Wells and Cisterns code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “pulley” sense (a wheel over a well); this word's single occurrence describes the wheels of a throne, not a well.
- Plants001002007001
- This Plants code is likewise inherited from the shared cluster's “tumbleweed” sense, not attested by this word's single throne-vision occurrence.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1535. galgal [גַּלְגַּל] noun masculine wheel (ᵑ7 Biblical Hebrew; Syriac ); — plural…
[גַּלְגַּל] noun masculine wheel (ᵑ7 Biblical Hebrew; Syriac ); — plural suffix גַּלְגִּלּוֺהִ֫י Dan 7:9 of throne-chariot of God.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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