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# גַּבַּחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1372

**bald forehead** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bald forehead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּבַּ֫חַת: n.f. bald forehead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bald forehead (NH id., Aramaic ܓܒܳܚܽܘܬܳܐ ), only Lv 13—abs. Lv 13:42 (P; asson. בְּקָרַ֫חַת אוֹ בַגַּבַּ֫חַת); גַּבַּחְתּוֹ v 42, 43 (both P & ‖ קָרַחְתּוֹ); in all, as place of appearance of an eruption; v 55 (P; ‖ id.) = in its front, i.e. front of garment.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his bald (2); forehead (1); its bald (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.42/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַגַּבַּ֔חַת נֶ֖גַע לָבָ֣ן אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם צָרַ֤עַת פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ הִ֔וא בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֥וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) it.will.be on the.bald spot or on the.bald forehead a.plague white reddish \[is\].a.serious.skin.disease \[which.is\].breaking.out it on his.bald spot or on his.bald forehead

*JPS 1917:* But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

[Leviticus 13:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.43/#tree)

וְרָאָ֨ה אֹת֜וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה שְׂאֵת־הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ לְבָנָ֣ה אֲדַמְדֶּ֔מֶת בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֣וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹ כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה צָרַ֖עַת ע֥וֹר בָּשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see it the priest and there! the.swelling of the.plague \[is\].white reddish on his.bald spot or on his.bald forehead like.\[the\] appearance of.a.serious.skin.disease of.skin of.flesh

*JPS 1917:* Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1372.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).