a.ga.lah denotes a wheeled vehicle used for carrying people, goods, or sacred objects, and in agricultural and figurative comparisons.

The attested uses chiefly designate wheeled vehicles for transporting people, provisions, offerings, or the ark. The same concrete vehicle also occurs in descriptions of threshing equipment and in comparisons involving a loaded vehicle or a rope associated with one.

1. Wheeled carrying vehicle · dominant

   Singular absolute forms occur where a new vehicle bears the ark in 1 Samuel 6:7 and 2 Samuel 6:3; in 1 Samuel 6:8 the APB renders the clause, "set it upon the cart." Plural absolute forms designate vehicles supplied for transporting Jacob's household in Genesis 46:5 and vehicles assigned with oxen in Numbers 7:6. The noun also appears in agricultural equipment and comparisons: Isaiah 28:27 mentions its wheel, Amos 2:13 compares tottering to a vehicle full of sheaves, and Isaiah 5:18 uses a rope associated with one in an image of drawing sin.

   1 Samuel 6:72 Samuel 6:3Genesis 46:5Numbers 7:6Isaiah 28:27Amos 2:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as "cart," while Genesis 46:5 uses "wagons" for the vehicles carrying Jacob's household. Isaiah 28:27 and Isaiah 28:28 likewise mention a cart's wheel; these renderings reflect whole-verse translation rather than word-by-word alignment.