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Strong's #1537: Gilgal (pronounced ghil-gawl')

the same as 1536 (with the article as a properly, noun); Gilgal, the name of three places in Palestine:--Gilgal. See also 1019.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gilgâl

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

3) a region conquered by Joshua, site unsure

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: the same as H1536



Usage:

This word is used 41 times:

Deuteronomy 11:30: "which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?"
Joshua 4:19: "day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho."
Joshua 4:20: "out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal."
Joshua 5:9: "from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day."
Joshua 5:10: "And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth"
Joshua 9:6: "Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men"
Joshua 10:6: "Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand"
Joshua 10:7: "So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war"
Joshua 10:9: "them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night."
Joshua 10:15: "with him, unto the camp to Gilgal."
Joshua 10:43: "with him, unto the camp to Gilgal."
Joshua 12:23: "one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;"
Joshua 14:6: "came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite"
Joshua 15:7: "of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up"
Judges 2:1: "of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up"
Judges 3:19: "the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king:"
1 Samuel 7:16: "year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged"
1 Samuel 10:8: "And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer"
1 Samuel 11:14: "the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."
1 Samuel 11:15: "And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king"
1 Samuel 11:15: "they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed"
1 Samuel 13:4: "were called together after Saul to Gilgal."
1 Samuel 13:7: "and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed"
1 Samuel 13:8: "had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from"
1 Samuel 13:12: "will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD:"
1 Samuel 13:15: "arose, and got him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered"
1 Samuel 15:12: "and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal."
1 Samuel 15:21: "of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal."
1 Samuel 15:33: "And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before in Gilgal."
2 Samuel 19:15: "Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over"
2 Samuel 19:40: "Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people"
2 Kings 2:1: "went with Elisha from Gilgal."
2 Kings 4:38: "And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting"
Nehemiah 12:29: "Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for"
Hosea 4:15: "offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven,"
Hosea 9:15: "All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness"
Hosea 12:11: "vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in"
Amos 4:4: "Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices"
Amos 5:5: "Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for"
Amos 5:5: "not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel"
Micah 6:5: "Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD."









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