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merekeb
מרכב
'merekeb' (sometimes pronounced “merkebah/merkebot”) is the Hebrew name for a “chariot”. Although the Hebrew people did not typically use chariots, or horses for that matter, they were familiar with the technology as it was used by wealthy and powerful members of the elite classes and military of neighboring nations such as Egypt and the Hittites.
The word appears 41 times in the ancient Hebrew texts.
However, at least some of these instances appear to refer to a flying vehicle, rather than a horse-drawn land vehicle. Notably, the 3 instances in Zechariah 6 appear to have this meaning. Zechariah “lifts his eyes” and sees the 'merekeb' approaching very quickly from between two distant mountains. The 'merekeb' are also described in this passage as four roah.