Word Study · Strong's H1538 · Hebrew
גֻּלְגֹּלֶת
gulgoleth
gul-go'-leth
Strong's 1890 spelling: gulgôleth
“a skull (as round)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)
Rendered in the KJV as
head, every man, poll, skull.
- 12occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 9inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 12 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 9
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם3
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃2
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹ1
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ׃1
- הַגֻּלְגֹּ֛לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶת1
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙1
How it is rendered · 5
- to heads their4
- for the head3
- skull his2
- to skulls their2
- the skull1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp · 6
- HRd/Ncfsa · 3
- HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 2
- HTd/Ncfsa · 1
All 12, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Numbers5 of 12 · 42%
- 1 Chronicles3 of 12 · 25%
- Exodus2 of 12 · 17%
- Judges1 of 12 · 8%
- 2 Kings1 of 12 · 8%
Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Exodus2 occurrences
- Exodus 16:16לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singularThis is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”here: for the head
- Exodus 38:26לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulara beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.here: for the head
Numbers5 occurrences
- Numbers 1:2לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.here: to heads their
- Numbers 1:18לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraland on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,here: to heads their
- Numbers 1:20לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralFrom the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,here: to heads their
- Numbers 1:22לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralFrom the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,here: to heads their
- Numbers 3:47לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singularyou are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.here: for the head
1 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 10:10גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹgulgaltonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularThey put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.here: skull his
- 1 Chronicles 23:3לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralThe Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.here: to skulls their
- 1 Chronicles 23:24לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralThese were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.here: to skulls their