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# גַּלָּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1532

**barber** — 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

barber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1532/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּלָּב: barber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1532/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] barber (Ph. גלב CISi, 257 ff.)—Ez 5:1 תַּעַר הַגַּלָּבִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.5.1/#tree)

וְאַתָּ֨ה בֶן־אָדָ֜ם קַח־לְךָ֣ ׀ חֶ֣רֶב חַדָּ֗ה תַּ֤עַר הַגַּלָּבִים֙ תִּקָּחֶ֣נָּה לָּ֔ךְ וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ֥ עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ וְעַל־זְקָנֶ֑ךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ לְךָ֛ מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִשְׁקָ֖ל וְחִלַּקְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you O.son of.humankind take (for yourself a.sword sharp (the).razor of.(the) barbers you will.take.it (for yourself and you.will.make.\[it\].pass over head your and over beard your and you.will.take (for yourself balances of.weight and you will.divide.them

*JPS 1917:* And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard; then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1532.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1532/): 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).