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Gilgal

A celebrated place situated on the west of Jordan, where the Israelites encamped some time after their passage over that river, and where Joshua pitched twelve stones taken out of Jordan as a memorial. A considerable city was afterward built there, which became renowned for many events recorded in the history of the Jews. Gilgal is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “wheel; rolling; heap.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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wheel; rolling; heap According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

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Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Gilgal

wheel; rolling; heap

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

GILGAL

a celebrated place situated on the west of Jordan, where the Israelites encamped some time after their passage over that river, and where Joshua pitched twelve stones taken out of Jordan as a memorial. A considerable city was afterward built there, which became renowned for many events recorded in the history of the Jews. Gilgal was about a league from Jordan, and at an equal distance from Jericho.

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Concordance

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gilgal

Meaning:
wheel; rolling; heap

Indexed occurrences: 0

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