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title: גִּלְגָּל — wheel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּלְגָּל (1536), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wheel. BDB 1906: wheel. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּלְגָּל

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«גִּלְגָּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wheel** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1536 · **BDB:** גִּלְגָּל

### Glosses

the.wheel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wheel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

wheel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wheel (on format. cf. BaNB 204) of cart, גִּלְגַּל עֶגְלָתוֹ Is 28:28.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּלְגָּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1536/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 28:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.28/)

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לֶ֣חֶם יוּדָ֔ק כִּ֛י לֹ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח אָד֣וֹשׁ יְדוּשֶׁ֑נּוּ וְ֠הָמַם גִּלְגַּ֧ל עֶגְלָת֛וֹ וּפָרָשָׁ֖יו לֹֽא־יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* bread it.is.crushed (dm) not to perpetuity continually.(thresh) anyone threshes.it and he.sets.in.motion the.wheel his.cart his and horses his not he crushes.it

*JPS 1917:* Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.

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