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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1372

גַּבַּחַת

gabbachathgab-bakh'-ath

baldness

4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1372is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1372

baldness in the forehead; by analogy, a bare spot on the right side of cloth

The King James renders it: bald forehead, [idiom] without.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gabbachath is rendered "baldness". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Four of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:42But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.

Leviticus 13:42בַגַּבַּ֔חַת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's four uses are in Leviticus.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • on bald forehead his2
  • on bald forehead its1
  • on the bald forehead1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גַּבְלֻתgabluthtwistsUses2
גַּבְנֹןgabnonpeakUses2
גַּבְהוּתgabhuthhaughtinessUses2
גַּבgabbackUses1

All 4, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃2
  • בַגַּבַּ֔חַת1
  • בְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹ1

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa

Leviticus

four uses
  • But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.

    Leviticus 13:42

    • בַגַּבַּ֔חַתvagabachatpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the bald forehead
    • בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃vegabachtopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on bald forehead his
  • The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

    Leviticus 13:43

    • בְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹvegabachtopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on bald forehead his
  • After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.

    Leviticus 13:55

    • בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃vegabachtopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on bald forehead its

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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