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# גָּלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1548

**be bald** — used 23 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

be bald [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1548/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּלַח: vb. be bald shave, shave off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1548/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be bald (Arabic جَلِحَ ); shave, shave off (so NH, Aramaic)—Pf. וְגִלַּח consec. Lv 14:8 + 2 times; sf. וְגִלְּחוֹ consec. 2 S 14:26; 3 fs. וְגִלְּחָה consec. Dt 21:12; Impf. יְגַלַּח Lv 14:9 Is 7:20, יְגַלֵּ֑חַ Lv 13:33 + 2 times, וַיְגַלַּח Gn 41:14 2 S 10:4; sf. (3 ms.) יְגַלְּחֶנּוּ, וַיְגַלְּחֵם 1 Ch 19:4; 3 fs. וַתְּגַלַּח Ju 16:19; 3 mpl. יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ Lv 21:5 Ez 44:20; Inf. sf. of subj. גַּלְּחוֹ 2 S 14:26;— shave, obj. the head, רֹאשׁ Nu 6:9(×2), 18 (P) Dt 21:12 (hair as containing impurity cf. RSSem i 407), 2 S 14:26(×2) cf. 26 Ez 44:20; Lv 13:33 (P), obj. הַנֶּתֶק; obj. persons 1 Ch 19:4. shave off, the hair שֵׂעָר Lv 14:8, 9(×2) (P) cf. Ju 16:19; the beard זָקָן Lv 21:5 (H) 2 S 10:4. fig. of devastation by Assyrians Is 7:20 (obj. הָרֹאשׁ, שַׂעַר הָרַגְלָ֑יִם and הַזָּקָן) intrans. he shaved (himself) Gn 41:14 (E). Pf. גֻּלָּ֑ח Ju 16:22, גֻּלַּחְתִּי Ju 16:17; Pt. cstr. מְגֻלְּחֵי Je 41:5;—be shaven, subj. pers. (of Samson) Ju 16:17, 22; מְגֻלְּחֵי זָקָן Je 41:5. Pf. וְהִתְגַּלָּ֑ח consec. Lv 13:33; Inf. sf. הִתְגַּלְּחוֹ Nu 6:19;—shave oneself Lv 13:33; c. acc. אֶת־נִזְרוֹ Nu 6:19 (both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: he will shave (7); he (4); he shaved (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 16:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.22/#tree)

וַיָּ֧חֶל שְׂעַר־רֹאשׁ֛וֹ לְצַמֵּ֖חַ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר גֻּלָּֽח׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.began the.hair his.head his to grow.back when it.had.been.shaved

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

[Ezekiel 44:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.20/#tree)

וְרֹאשָׁם֙ לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֔חוּ וּפֶ֖רַע לֹ֣א יְשַׁלֵּ֑חוּ כָּס֥וֹם יִכְסְמ֖וּ אֶת־רָאשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and head their not they.will.shave and hair not they.will.let.loose surely.(trim) they.will.trim (et) heads their

*JPS 1917:* Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1548.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1548/): 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).