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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 the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a bekah for each man (that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone included in the numbering from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were 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 for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:53

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:53 - But a certain woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:35 - So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:10 - Then they put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses—the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted individually by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and above.
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