Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1538
גֻּלְגֹּלֶת
gulgolethgul-go'-leth
head
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gulgôleth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1538is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1538
a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)
The King James renders it: head, every man, poll, skull.
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
gulgoleth is rendered "head". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:16This 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.’”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
This 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.’”
Exodus 16:16לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's twelve uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to heads their4
- for the head3
- skull his2
- to skulls their2
- the skull1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֻּלָּה | gullah | bowl | Uses15 |
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם3
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃2
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹ1
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ׃1
- הַגֻּלְגֹּ֛לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת1
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶת1
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
two uses
This 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.’”
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the head
a 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.
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the head
Numbers
five uses
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to heads their
and 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,
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to heads their
From 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,
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to heads their
From 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,
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to heads their
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
- לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶתlagulgoletpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the head
Judges
one use
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ׃gulgaltonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: skull his
2 Kings
one use
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- הַגֻּלְגֹּ֛לֶתhagulgoletthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the skull
1 Chronicles
three uses
They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
- גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹgulgaltonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: skull his
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙legulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to skulls their
These 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.
- לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔םlegulgelotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to skulls their
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.