What Does Ezekiel 10:13 Mean in the King James?

As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

Ezekiel 10:13 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The wheels are addressed by their motion-name, the rolling thing, so the vision names what they do, not merely what they are.

THE MEANING

You hear the plural wheels gathered under a single call: “the rolling one.” Their identity here is motion, turning and moving as one summoned whole. What looks like separate parts can belong to one moving pattern.

THE ROOT

הַגַּלְגַּל

ha-galgal

GROWS FROM

גלל

galal

to roll, roll away, or roll onto

The verse places the plural “wheels” beside the singular ⁨הַגַּלְגַּל⁩ (ha-galgal, “the rolling wheel”): their name is the motion they embody. The same root forms words for rolling, rolling away, and a rolled scroll, gathering motion and release under one seed.

ALSO GROWS

galal: to roll, roll away, or roll onto

גָּלַל

Psalm 37:5 uses this verb for committing one’s way to the LORD; Joshua 5:9 uses it for rolling reproach away.

megillah: scroll, rolled writing

מְגִלָּה

A wheel and a scroll seem unrelated in English, yet both carry the idea of something rolled.

Gilgal: “rolling”; the place named in Joshua 5:9

גִּלְגָּל

Its name echoes the same root as the LORD’s words about rolling away reproach.

THE PATTERN

Rolling can mean more than turning: it depicts transfer, of a way entrusted, care placed, or reproach removed.

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalm 37:5 · KJV“Commit” carries the rolling root: the way is pictured as rolled onto the LORD.

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 5:9 · KJVThe same root names what is rolled away, while Gilgal preserves that motion in the place’s name.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

1 Peter 5:7 · KJVA different image of transfer: care is cast onto him rather than kept as something carried alone.

THE THREAD

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalm 37:5 · KJV

The KJV’s “Commit” translates ⁨גָּלַל⁩ (galal, “roll”): the way is pictured as rolled onto the LORD. The wheel’s name and this act share a root, linking motion with entrusting what is in motion.

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