Hebrew verb · H1548
גָּלַח
galachgaw-lakh'
to shave
23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâlach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1548is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1548
properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste
The King James renders it: poll, shave (off).
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
galach is rendered "to shave". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:14So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:14וַיְגַלַּח֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty-three uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will shave4
- and he will shave3
- and he shaved2
- they will shave2
- and he shaved it1
- and he shaved them1
- and he will shave himself1
- and she shaved off1
- and she will shave1
- and when shaved he1
- he has shaved himself1
- he shaved1
and 4 more, 23 uses in all
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.
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- וְגִלַּ֣ח2
- וַיְגַלַּח֙2
- יְגַלֵּ֑חַ2
- יְגַלַּ֣ח2
- גֻּלָּֽח׃ פ1
- גֻּלַּ֙חְתִּי֙1
- הִֽתְגַּלְּח֥וֹ1
- וּֽבְגַלְּחוֹ֮1
- וְגִלַּ֤ח1
- וְגִלְּחָה֙1
- וְגִלְּח֑וֹ1
- וְהִ֨תְגַּלָּ֔ח1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVpi3ms
- Hc/Vpq3ms3Hc/Vpq3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms2Hc/Vpw3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVpi3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Vpcc/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vpq3fs1Hc/Vpq3fs
- Hc/Vpq3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vtq3ms1Hc/Vtq3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVPp1cs
Genesis
one use
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
- וַיְגַלַּח֙vaygalachHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he shaved
Leviticus
six uses
then the person must shave himself except for the scaly area. Then the priest shall isolate him for another seven days.
- וְהִ֨תְגַּלָּ֔חvehitgalachHc/Vtq3mstagged: and he will shave himself
- יְגַלֵּ֑חַyegaleachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shave
The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
- וְגִלַּ֣חvegilachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will shave
On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
- יְגַלַּ֣חyegalachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shave
- יְגַלֵּ֑חַyegaleachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shave
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
- יְגַלֵּ֑חוּyegalechuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will shave
Numbers
four uses
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
- וְגִלַּ֤חvegilachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will shave
- יְגַלְּחֶֽנּוּ׃yegallechenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shave it
Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.
- וְגִלַּ֣חvegilachHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will shave
And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
- הִֽתְגַּלְּח֥וֹhitgalechoverb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has shaved himself
Deuteronomy
one use
then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
- וְגִלְּחָה֙vegilechahHc/Vpq3fstagged: and she will shave
Judges
three uses
Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
- גֻּלַּ֙חְתִּי֙gulachtiverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was shaved
And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
- וַתְּגַלַּ֕חvategalachHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she shaved off
However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
- גֻּלָּֽח׃ פgulachverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had been shaved
2 Samuel
four uses
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
- וַיְגַלַּח֙vaygalachHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he shaved
And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
- וּֽבְגַלְּחוֹ֮uvegalechoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and when shaved he
- יְגַלֵּ֔חַyegaleachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he shaved
- וְגִלְּח֑וֹvegilechoHc/Vpq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he shaved it
1 Chronicles
one use
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
- וַֽיְגַלְּחֵ֔םvaygalechemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he shaved them
Isaiah
one use
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- יְגַלַּ֣חyegalachverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will shave
Jeremiah
one use
eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.
- מְגֻלְּחֵ֥יmegulecheiverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: shaven of
Ezekiel
one use
They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.
- יְגַלֵּ֔חוּyegalechuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will shave
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.
