גֻּלְגֹּלֶת gulgolet

Hebrew word for “head” · Strong’s H1538 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

1) head, poll, skull; 1a) skull; 1b) head, poll (of census)

How it is translated

Glosses given for gulgolet in context, with how often each is used:

• heads 4
• head 3
• skull 3
• skulls 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 1 (4), 1 Chronicles 23 (2), Exodus 16 (1), Exodus 38 (1), Numbers 3 (1), Judges 9 (1), 2 Kings 9 (1), 1 Chronicles 10 (1)

Forms

• לגלגלתם 6
• לגלגלת 3
• גלגלתו 2
• הגלגלת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gulgolet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 7
• מַעַל maal “above” 6
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 6
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 6
• מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 4
• שֵׁם shem “name” 5
• זָכָר zakhar “male” 3
• אָב av “father” 5
• פָּקַד paqad “to reckon” 3
• תּוֹלֵדוֹת toledah “generation” 2
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 3

Key verses

The verses using gulgolet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 16:16 — This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your…
• Exodus 38:26 — A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for…
• Numbers 1:2 — Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every…
• Numbers 1:18 — And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of…
• Numbers 1:20 — And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the…
• Numbers 1:22 — Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number…
• Numbers 3:47 — Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
• Judges 9:53 — And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
• 2 Kings 9:35 — And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
• 1 Chronicles 10:10 — And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
• 1 Chronicles 23:3 — Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
• 1 Chronicles 23:24 — These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.