Hebrew verb · H1556
גָּלַל
galalgaw-lal'
to roll
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâlal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1556is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1556
to roll (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
galal is rendered "to roll". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:3When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:3וְגָלֲל֤וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- roll5
- and he rolled1
- and I will roll you1
- and it may roll on1
- and people will roll1
- and rolls1
- and they rolled1
- and they will be rolled up1
- I have rolled away1
- roll away1
- rolled1
- they have rolled themselves1
and 2 more, 18 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֹּ֣ל2
- גּ֣וֹל1
- גַּ֣ל1
- גֹּ֛לּוּ1
- גֹּֽלּוּ־1
- גַּלּ֛וֹתִי1
- הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃1
- וְגִלְגַּלְתִּ֙יךָ֙1
- וְגֹ֥לֵ֥ל1
- וְגָלֲל֤וּ1
- וְגָֽלֲלוּ֙1
- וְיִגַּ֥ל1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqv2ms
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqv2mp
- Hc/VNq3cp1Hc/VNq3cp
- HC/VNu3ms1HC/VNu3ms
- Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp2ms1Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vtcc
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular1HVPsfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
Genesis
four uses
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
- וְגָלֲל֤וּvegalaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they rolled
But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
- וְגָֽלֲלוּ֙vegalaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and people will roll
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
- וַיָּ֤גֶלvaiyagelHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he rolled
But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
- לְהִתְגֹּלֵ֤לlehitgolelpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to roll himself
Joshua
two uses
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.
- גַּלּ֛וֹתִיgalotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have rolled away
So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.
- גֹּ֛לּוּgoluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: roll
1 Samuel
one use
Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”
- גֹּֽלּוּ־golu-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: roll
2 Samuel
one use
But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.
- מִתְגֹּלֵ֥לmitgolelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: wallowing
Job
one use
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
- הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃hitgalgaluverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rolled themselves
Psalms
three uses
“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- גֹּ֣לgolverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: roll
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- גּ֣וֹלgolverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: roll
Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
- גַּ֣לgalverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: roll away
Proverbs
two uses
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
- גֹּ֣לgolverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: roll
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
- וְגֹ֥לֵ֥לvegolelconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and rolls
Isaiah
two uses
For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
- מְגוֹלָלָ֣הmegolalahverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: rolled
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
- וְנָגֹ֥לּוּvenagoluHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be rolled up
Jeremiah
one use
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- וְגִלְגַּלְתִּ֙יךָ֙vegilgaltikhaHc/Vpq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will roll you
Amos
one use
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- וְיִגַּ֥לveyigalHC/VNu3mstagged: and it may roll on
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.