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# גִּבֵּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1371

**having a bald forehead** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

having a bald forehead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּבֵּחַ: adj. having bald forehead [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. having a bald forehead, ג׳ הוּא Lv 13:41 (P ‖ קֵרֵחַ הוּא v 40).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] bald (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.41/#tree)

וְאִם֙ מִפְּאַ֣ת פָּנָ֔יו יִמָּרֵ֖ט רֹאשׁ֑וֹ גִּבֵּ֥חַ ה֖וּא טָה֥וֹר הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and if from the.side his.face his it.will.become.bare head his \[is\].bald he \[is\].pure he

*JPS 1917:* And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1371.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/): 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).