גִּלְגּוּל, גִּילְ׳ m. (גלגל) 1) rolling, turning. Y. Sot. I, 16ᶜ bot. כדי ג׳ ביצה as much time as is required for roasting an egg in the ashes; Num. R. s. 9.—Y. Pes. III, 30ᵃ לאחר גִּילְגּוּלָהּ after the dough has been rolled (formed).—Keth. 111ᵃ ע"י ג׳ by rolling under the ground (for resurrection in the Holy Land). —2) (with or without שבועה) the rule permitting the court to insert in an oath an affirmation to which the person concerned could not have been compelled directly; an oath by implication. Kidd. 27ᵇ. Y. ib. I, 60ᵈ. Yeb. 58ᵇ; Kidd. l. c. ע"י ג׳ by implication (the woman including in her oath the time of her betrothal); a. fr.—4) (cmp. גַּל) בית ג׳ a field full of hills and depressions. Toh. VI, 6; Erub. 22ᵇ (Var. in Ar. גדגד, ref. to גִּידּוּד). [Tosef. B. Bath. II, 16 בית גילגל, v. גַּלְגַּל.]