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Lexicon :: Strong's H1538 - gulgōleṯ

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גֻּלְגֹּלֶת
Transliteration
gulgōleṯ
Pronunciation
gul-go'-leth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
By reduplication from גָּלַל (H1556)
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TWOT Reference: 353l

Strong’s Definitions

גֻּלְגֹּלֶת gulgôleth, gul-go'-leth; by reduplication from H1556; a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons):—head, every man, poll, skull.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H1538 in the following manner: poll (7x), scull (2x), every man (2x), head (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H1538 in the following manner: poll (7x), scull (2x), every man (2x), head (1x).

  1. head, poll, skull

    1. skull

    2. head, poll (of census)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גֻּלְגֹּלֶת gulgôleth, gul-go'-leth; by reduplication from H1556; a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons):—head, every man, poll, skull.
STRONGS H1538: Abbreviations
† גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine skull, head, poll (person) (on formation compare BaNB 205; Aramaic גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא) — absolute ג׳ 2 Kings 9:35 + 3 times; suffix גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֺ Judges 9:53; 1 Chronicles 10:10; plural suffix גֻּלְגְּלֹתָם Numbers 1:2 + 5 times; —
1. skull, as broken by a stone Judges 9:53; as severed from body 2 Kings 9:35; 1 Chronicles 10:10.
2. head, poll (in counting, taxing, etc.; only P and late) עֹמֶר לַגּ׳ Exodus 16:16 an omer for every man; compare Exodus 38:26; Numbers 1:2, 18, 20, 22; Numbers 3:47; 1 Chronicles 23:3, 24.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:16; 38:26

Numbers

1:2; 1:2; 1:18; 1:20; 1:22; 3:47

Judges

9:53; 9:53

2 Kings

9:35; 9:35

1 Chronicles

10:10; 10:10; 23:3; 23:24

H1538

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1538 matches the Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (gulgōleṯ),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - “This is [fn]what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone gather [fn]as much as he will eat; you shall take [fn]an omer apiece H1538 according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka a head H1538 (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were [fn]counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - “Take a [fn]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head H1538 by head H1538

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month. Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head H1538 by head H1538,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 -

Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head H1538 by head H1538, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 -

Of the sons of Simeon, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head H1538 by head H1538, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - you shall take five shekels apiece, per head H1538; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty [fn]gerahs),

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:53

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:53 - But a woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull H1538.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:35 - So they went to bury her, but they found nothing of her except the skull H1538, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:10 - They put his armor in the house of their gods and [fn]impaled his head H1538 in the house of Dagon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - Now the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number by [fn]head H1538 count H1538 of men was thirty-eight thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 -

These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, the heads of the fathers’ households of those among them who were [fn]counted, in the number of names by their [fn]head H1538 count H1538, doing the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

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