Strong's Hebrew · H1534
גַּלְגַּל
galgal · gal-gal'
heaven, rolling thing, wheel.
Definition
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
Derivation
by reduplication from H1556 (גָּלַל);
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.”
“When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.”
“And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.”
“Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.”
“Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.”
“at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.”
“The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.”
“Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,”
“I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.””
“His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).