H1548 - גָּלַח (gâlach)

H1548 גָּלַח (gâlach) gaw-lakh'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a primitive root; properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste

KJV Usage: poll, shave (off)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גָּלַח (ga.lach) — to shave. 1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to shave 1a2) to shave off 1a3) (fig. of devastation) 1b)(Pual) to be shaven 1c) (Hithpael) to shave oneself

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

גלח (H1548)

verb

Non-Whole | verb pi, verb hit, verb pu'al

to shave (oneself), to cut off (hair) = action by which humans cut the hair on all or part of their body

GEN 41:14 · LEV 13:33 · LEV 13:33 · LEV 14:8 · LEV 14:9 · LEV 14:9 · LEV 21:5 · NUM 6:9 · NUM 6:9 · NUM 6:18 · NUM 6:19 · DEU 21:12 · 2SA 14:26 · 2SA 14:26 · 2SA 14:26 · JER 41:5 · EZK 44:20

Non-Whole | verb pi, verb pu'al

to shave (someone), to cut off (someone's hair) = causative action by which humans cut the hair on all or part of the body of someone else

JDG 16:17 · JDG 16:19 · JDG 16:22 · 2SA 10:4 · 1CH 19:4 · ISA 7:20

¹ ISA 7:20 The expression "the head and the hair of the feet" may be a hendiadys for the "whole body" | alternatively, "feet" may be a euphemism for "genitals"

Matthew P. Anstey; Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[גָּלַח] vb. be bald; Pi. shave, shave off

Pu. be shaven

Hithp. shave oneself

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