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Strong's #1548 - גָּלַח
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- to poll, shave, shave off, be bald
- (Piel)
- to shave
- to shave off
- (figuratively of devastation)
- 1b)(Pual) to be shaven
- (Hithpael) to shave oneself
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Pi`el shave, shave off (so Late Hebrew, Aramaic) — Perfect וְגִלַּח consecutive Leviticus 14:8 2t.; suffix וְגִלְּחוֺ consecutive 2 Samuel 14:26; 3 feminine singular וְגִלְּחָה consecutive Deuteronomy 21:12; Imperfect יְגַלַּח Leviticus 14:9; Isaiah 7:20, יְגַלֵּחַ֑ Leviticus 13:33 2t., וַיְגַלַּח Genesis 41:14; 2 Samuel 10:4; suffix (3 masculine singular) יְגַלְּחֶגּוּ, וַיְגַלְּחֵם 1 Chronicles 19:4; 3 feminine singular וַתְּנַלַּךְ Judges 16:19; 3 masculine plural יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ Leviticus 21:5; Ezekiel 44:20; Infinitive suffix of subject גַּלְּחוֺ 2 Samuel 14:26; —
1 shave, object the head, ראֹשׁ Numbers 6:9 (twice in verse); Numbers 6:18 (P) Deuteronomy 21:12 (hair as containing impurity, compare RS Sem i. 407), 2 Samuel 14:26 (twice in verse) compare; 2 Samuel 14:26; Ezekiel 44:20; Leviticus 13:33 (P), object הַנֶתֶק; object persons 1 Chronicles 19:4.
2 shave off, the hair שֵׂעָר Leviticus 14:8,9 (twice in verse) (P) compare Judges 16:19; the beard זָקָן Leviticus 21:5 (H) 2 Samuel 10:4.
3 figurative of devastation by Assyrians Isaiah 7:20 (object הָראֹשׁ, שַׂעַר הָרַגְלָ֑יִם and הַזָּקָן).
4 intransitive he shaved (himself) Genesis 41:14 (E).
Pu`al Perfect גֻּלָּ֑ח Judges 16:22, גֻּלַּחְתִּי Judges 16:17; Participle construct מְגֻלְּחֵי Jeremiah 41:5; — be shaven, subject person (of Samson) Judges 16:17,22; מְגֻלְּחֵי זָקָן Jeremiah 41:5.
Hithpa`el Perfect וְהִתְגַּלָּ֑ח consecutive Leviticus 13:33; Infinitive suffix הִתְגַּלְּחוֺ Numbers 6:19; — shave oneself Leviticus 13:33; with accusative אֶתנִֿזְרוֺ Numbers 6:19 (both P).
I. גלל ( be great in rank or dignity (often of God)).
גָּלַח unused in Kal, prop. to be smooth; hence to be naked (comp. גָּלָה), specially to be bald. Arab. جَلِحَ to be bald in the head. This root is softened from the harder root קָרַח; transp. it is חָלַק. In the western languages there correspond with this, calvus, Slav. goly, holy, Germ. kahl, also gelu, glacies.
Piel, to shave the head, Numbers 6:9; Deuteronomy 21:12 a person, 1 Chronicles 19:4 to shave off, cut off the hair (see Pual), the beard, 2 Samuel 10:4. Once intrans. to shave oneself (the hair and beard), Genesis 41:14. Metaph. any one is said to shave a land, who devastates it with fire and sword; Isaiah 7:20. (Ch. גַּלַּת to shave, to shear, גַּלָּת bald, used by the Rabbins of the monks, like the Bohem. holy).
Pual, to be shorn, Judges 16:17, 22 Judges 16:22.
Hithpael
(1) to shave oneself, Leviticus 13:33.
(2) to shave, or cut off from oneself (compare Lehrg. p. 284, letter d), with an acc., Numbers 6:19.