H1548 גָּלַח
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 23 KJV occurrences
גָּלַח
gâlach · gaw-lakh'
Definition
properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste
KJV Renderings
poll, shave (off).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 23)
- Genesis 41:14¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
- Leviticus 13:33He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
- Leviticus 14:9But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
- Numbers 6:9And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
- Deuteronomy 21:12Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
- Judges 16:22Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
- 2 Samuel 14:26And 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.
- Isaiah 7:20In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.