גִּלְגָּלGilgâl
proper name [of a location]: circle, roll away, off)
Pronunciation: ghil-gawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1537
Meanings
1. place east of Jericho, where Israel lay encamped (Joshua 4:19; Joshua 4:20; Joshua 5:9)
2. place on border between Judah & Benjamin (Joshua 15:17; Joshua 18:17)
3. place in Northern Israel, dwelling of prophets (2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 4:38)
4. place in Northern Israel near Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal (Deuteronomy 11:30)
5. in phrase (Joshua 12:23; Isaiah 8:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 40 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 11:30 (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)
- Joshua 4:19 The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then they camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho.
- Joshua 4:20 It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
- Joshua 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.
- Joshua 5:10 While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Joshua 9:6 When they arrived at the camp of Israel at Gilgal, they told Joshua and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land to ask you to make a peace treaty with us.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).