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2 Samuel 14:26
“And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1548 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- poll, shave (off).
- Grammar
- וּֽ — conjunction
- בְ — preposition
- גַלְּח — verb Piel, infinitive construct
- וֹ֮ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 23 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 41:14Leviticus 13:33Leviticus 13:33Leviticus 14:8Leviticus 14:9
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גָּלַח here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.