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Strong's H1537 גִּלְגָּל (gilgal)

Gilgal - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1537 — ek (“after”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1537
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 10

Strong's H1537 Quick Answer

Strong's H1537 גִּלגָּל (Gilgal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Gilgal (ghil-gawl') n/l. 1. Gilgal, the name of three places in Israel [the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun)] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include gilgal. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Gilgal (ghil-gawl') n/l. 1. Gilgal, the name of three places in Israel [the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun)]
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
10 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
gilgal

Meaning and Definition

Gilgal (ghil-gawl') n/l. 1. Gilgal, the name of three places in Israel [the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun)] KJV: Gilgal. See also H1019. Root(s): H1536 See also: H1019

Original Word
גִּלגָּל
Transliteration
Gilgal
Derivation
First root strongs: 1536
Morphology
Name/l.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1537. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Gilgal

Usage: § Gilgal = "a wheel, rolling" 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

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How Strong's H1537 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Gilgal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Gilgal Deuteronomy 11:30 39×

How Strong's H1537 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1537 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1537 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 11:30 KJV

Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

Joshua 4:19 KJV

And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

Joshua 4:20 KJV

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1537.

Deuteronomy 11:30 Old Testament, KJV
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Joshua 4:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua 4:20 Old Testament, KJV
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Joshua 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
Joshua 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
Joshua 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Joshua 10:7 Old Testament, KJV
So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
Joshua 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
Joshua 10:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua 10:43 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua 12:23 Old Testament, KJV
The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;
Joshua 14:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
Joshua 15:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
Judges 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
1 Samuel 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
1 Samuel 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
1 Samuel 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
1 Samuel 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
1 Samuel 13:4 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13:7 Old Testament, KJV
And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
1 Samuel 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1 Samuel 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 15:12 Old Testament, KJV
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:21 Old Testament, KJV
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
2 Samuel 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
2 Samuel 19:40 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
2 Kings 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 Kings 4:38 Old Testament, KJV
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Nehemiah 12:29 Old Testament, KJV
Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
Hosea 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Hosea 12:11 Old Testament, KJV
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Amos 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Amos 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
Micah 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1537, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 13 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 12 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1537 FAQ

What does gilgal (גִּלְגָּל) mean?

Gilgal (Strong's H1537) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Gilgal". Gilgal (ghil-gawl') n/l. 1. Gilgal, the name of three places in Israel [the same as H1536 (with the article as a properly, noun)]

How many times is gilgal (גִּלְגָּל) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H1537 across 10 books.

Where can I study gilgal (גִּלְגָּל) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1537 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate gilgal (גִּלְגָּל)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gilgal. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.