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# גֻּלְגֹּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1538

**skull** — used 12 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

skull [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1538/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת: n.f. skull, head, poll [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1538/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. skull, head, poll (person) (BaNB 205; Aramaic גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא, Arabic جُمْجُمَة )—abs. ג׳ 2 K 9:35 + 3 times; sf. גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֹ Ju 9:53 1 Ch 10:10; pl. sf. גֻּלְגְּלֹתָם Nu 1:2 + 5 times;— skull, as broken by a stone Ju 9:53; as severed from body 2 K 9:35 1 Ch 10:10. head, poll (in counting, taxing, etc.; only P and late) עֹמֶר לַגּ׳ Ex 16:16 an omer for every man; cf. 38:26 Nu 1:2, 18, 20, 22; 3:47 1 Ch 23:3, 24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: heads (6); head (3); skull (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.53/#tree)

וַתַּשְׁלֵ֞ךְ אִשָּׁ֥ה אַחַ֛ת פֶּ֥לַח רֶ֖כֶב עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַתָּ֖רִץ אֶת־גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and she.threw a.woman one a.mill-stone of.an.upper.mill-stone on the.head of.Abimelech and she.crushed (et) skull his

*JPS 1917:* And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.

[1 Chronicles 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.10/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ אֶת־כֵּלָ֔יו בֵּ֖ית אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם וְאֶת־גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹ תָקְע֖וּ בֵּ֥ית דָּגֽוֹן׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) armor(s) his the.house their.gods their and (et) skull his they.fixed the.house of.Dagon

*JPS 1917:* And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1538/): 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).