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Lexicon :: Strong's H1537 - gilgāl

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גִּלְגָּל
Transliteration
gilgāl
Pronunciation
ghil-gawl'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

גִּלְגָּל Gilgâl, ghil-gawl'; the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun); Gilgal, the name of three places in Palestine:—Gilgal. See also H1019.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H1537 in the following manner: Gilgal (41x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H1537 in the following manner: Gilgal (41x).

  1. Gilgal = "a wheel, rolling"

    1. the first site of an Israelite camp west of the Jordan, east of Jericho, here Samuel was judge, and Saul was made king; later used for illicit worship

    2. dwelling place of prophets in northern Israel about four miles (7 km) from Shiloh and Bethel

    3. a region conquered by Joshua, site unsure

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּלְגָּל Gilgâl, ghil-gawl'; the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun); Gilgal, the name of three places in Palestine:—Gilgal. See also H1019.
STRONGS H1537: Abbreviations
† II. גִּלְגָּל proper name, of a location (= (sacred) circle of stones; compare Di on Joshua 5:9, where word-play on roll away, off) — with article except Joshua 5:9; Joshua 12:23; —
1. place east of Jericho, where Israel lay encamped Joshua 4:19, 20; Joshua 5:9, 10; Joshua 9:6; Joshua 10:7, 9; Joshua 14:6 compare also Micah 6:5 & Judges 3:19 הַפְּסִילִים אֶת־הַגּ׳ אֲשֶׁר:? modern Tell Jeljul BdPal 169; perhaps also the place where sacrifices were offered 1 Samuel 10:8; 1 Samuel 11:14, 15 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 13:4, 7, 8, 12, 15 (in 1 Samuel 13:15 insert also with other words, Dr compare We) 1 Samuel 15:12, 21, 33; place of illicit sacrifice Hosea 4:15; Hosea 9:15; Hosea 12:12; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5 (twice in verse), named also Judges 2:1; 1 Samuel 7:16; 2 Samuel 19:16; 2 Samuel 19:41; ? = בֵּית הַגִּלְגָּל Nehemiah 12:29.
2. place on border between Judah & Benjamin Joshua 15:17 (= גְּלִילוֺת Joshua 18:17 compare Di).
3. place in Northern Israel, dwelling of prophets 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 4:38, modern Jiljilie south from Nâbulus, southwest from Seilûn (Shiloh) compare Di RiHWB 518.
4. place in Northern Israel near Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal Deuteronomy 11:30, identification with 3 by Ke RiHWB 518 SchenkelBL SS; but compare Di.
5. in phrase מֶלֶךְ גּוֺיִם לְגִּלְגָּל Joshua 12:23, in list of Canaanitish kings; probably name of a (northern) district compare Di (B βασιλέα Γεεὶ τῆς Γαλιλαίας — but LXX of Lucian (Lag.) & Manuscripts Γοειμ τῆς Γελγελ); Di compare Isaiah 8:23.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

11:30

Joshua

4:19; 4:20; 5:9; 5:9; 5:9; 5:10; 9:6; 10:7; 10:9; 12:23; 12:23; 14:6; 15:17; 18:17

Judges

2:1; 3:19

1 Samuel

7:16; 10:8; 11:14; 11:15; 13:4; 13:7; 13:8; 13:12; 13:15; 13:15; 15:12; 15:21; 15:33

2 Samuel

19:16; 19:41

2 Kings

2:1; 4:38

Nehemiah

12:29

Hosea

4:15; 9:15; 12:12

Amos

4:4; 5:5

Micah

6:5

H1537

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Strong's Number H1537 matches the Hebrew גִּלְגָּל (gilgāl),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:9 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:6 - And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:7 - So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:9 - So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:15 - And Joshua, with all Israel, went back to the tent-circle at Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:43 - Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:23 - The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - Then the line goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so to the north, in the direction of Gilgal, which is opposite the slope up to Adummim, on the south side of the river: and the line goes on to the waters of En-shemesh, ending at En-rogel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 - From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:8 - Then you are to go down before me to Gilgal, where I will come to you, for the offering of burned offerings and peace-offerings: go on waiting there for seven days till I come to you and make clear to you what you have to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:14 - Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:15 - So all the people went to Gilgal; and there in Gilgal they made Saul king before the Lord; and peace-offerings were offered before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel were glad with great joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4 - And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bitterly hated by the Philistines. And the people came together after Saul to Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:7 - And a great number of the people had gone over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but Saul was still in Gilgal, and all the people went after him shaking in fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - And he went on waiting there for seven days, the time fixed by Samuel: but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were starting to go away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:40 - So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him: and all the people of Judah, as well as half the people of Israel, took the king on his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1 - Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:15 - Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:15 - All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 - Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:5 - O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.
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