גָּלַח galach

Hebrew word for “to shave” · Strong’s H1548 · used 23 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald;

How it is translated

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

• will shave 11
• shaved 6
• will shave himself 1
• has shaved himself 1
• shaved off 1
• had been shaved 1
• when shaved he 1
• shaven 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 6 (3), Judges 16 (3), Leviticus 14 (2), Genesis 41 (1), Leviticus 13 (1), Leviticus 21 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), 2 Samuel 10 (1), 2 Samuel 14 (1), 1 Chronicles 19 (1)

Forms

• יגלח 5
• וגלח 3
• ויגלח 2
• יגלחו 2
• והתגלח 1
• יגלחנו 1
• התגלחו 1
• וגלחה 1
• גלחתי 1
• ותגלח 1

Words used with it

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

• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 11
• שֵׂעָר sear “hair” 6
• זָקָן zaqan “beard” 5
• נָזִיר nazir “Nazirite” 3
• נֵזֶר nezer “consecration” 3
• מָדוּ medev “garment” 2
• חָנוּן chanun “Hanun” 2
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 3
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 4
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 4
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 3
• כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 41:14 — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
• Leviticus 14:8 — And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come…
• Leviticus 14:9 — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he…
• Leviticus 21:5 — They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
• Numbers 6:9 — And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the…
• Numbers 6:18 — And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his…
• Judges 16:17 — That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I…
• Judges 16:19 — And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and…
• 2 Samuel 10:4 — Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent…
• 1 Chronicles 19:4 — Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
• Isaiah 7:20 — In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet:…
• Jeremiah 41:5 — That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut…

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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.