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glgl, glglˀ (galgal, galgəlā) n.m. wheel
1
wheel
Common (except: OfA, Syr)
BarRak.1.8↗ wrṣt | bglgl | mrˀy | mlk | ˀšwr : I ran at the wheel of (the chariot of) my lord, the King of Assyria ; Dan 7:9↗ גַּלְגִּלּוֹהִי נוּר דָּלִק‏ ; BT Yom 37a(50)↗ גלגלא דהוו משקעי ליה‏ : an irrigation wheel with which they used to lower it [i.e. the laver into a cistern]
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ܓܠܓܝܠܐ ܕܫܝܢܐ : olive press wheel
CPA
2
circle
Qumran
(1)
w. עין: eyeball
JLAtg, JBAmb, JBA, LJLA
TgJ Is11:8↗ עַל חֵיזוּ גִלגְלֵי עֵינֵי חִוֵי חֻרמָן‏ : upon the sight of the eyeballs of a poisonous snake ; BT Tam 32b(18)↗ גולגלא דבשר̇א̇ ודמא הוא דלא קא שבע‏ : it is the eyeball of a human being that is never satisfied [see comment s.v. gwlglh n.f.] ; MG 22:73.2.18↗ text not cited ; TgPs17:8↗ נטר יתי כגילגול"היך {כבת}<בבת> גלגל" די במציעות עינא‏
(1)
בית גילגלין : eye sockets
JBAmb
JBAmb2 1:6↗ בצידעה באודנה ובבית גילגליהי דעינה‏ : in his temple, ear, and eye-sockets
(2)
(astron.) complete shape of the Moon/Sun
Qumran
4QEnastr b 7 iii:9↗ ונפק גלגלה ריקן מן כל נהור מטמר עם ש[משא]‏ : [the Moon's] circle comes out empty of all light, hiding with the Sun
(3)
(of a garment ) circular edge (see also s.v. glgl #2 ?)
Sam
(4)
(astron.) celestial sphere (of the Ptolemaic system)
JPAEpig, JBAmb, Man
MTKG 2:45 1b:20 מן דיתיב על גלגליה דשמשיה‏ : the one who sits above his Sun's sphere ; JBABowl 120.1:50↗ דקאים אחורי גלגלי שמשא‏ : which is positioned behind the sphere of the Sun ; ShPDm 42 ↗ garglia ḏruha : the spheres of the wind ; Mishqal Ainia 308↗ arqa šnat mn sadana ušumia šnat mn garglia : the earth was dislocated from the its foundation and the heaven from the spheres
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entrails (?)
Man
AlmaRZ 28↗ ḏhinun girglia hdiraiia hinun : those that are the surrounding entrails
3
hill
Sam
Marqe 1.1007↗ גלגליה הוו כרזין לון‏ : the hills (|| Mt. Gerizim) were declaring to them
4
pl: curtain cords (a textual var. to glgˀ; q.v.)
Syr
P Num3:26↗ ܘܓ̈ܠܓܐ/ܘܓ̈ܠܓܠܐ/ ܕܕܪܬܐ‏
5
rumbling, thunder
Man
JohnBook 41:10↗ pqa piqa bmrum ugargul gihrat mn abatrai : a crack cracked on high and the thunder rumbled behind me
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Mandaic also <b>gargul, gargla
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For the Samaritan usage compare glglyn < glgyn, "praise" in CPA and Sam.
For the likelihood that the pronunciation was gilglā in JBA see Morgenstern in REJ 168(2009):71.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 233[117]DJPA: 129aDJBA: 285aJastrow: 244Drower/Macuch: 76a, 78b, 85b,Payne-Smith ~: 711Levy Ch-W: 1:140Tal Sam: 147bDNWSI: 222DCPA[Schulthess]: 73[37]Qumran: 44

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