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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 5 times in 5 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - "Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - The people of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - you shall take five shekels apiece; reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them,
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