גֻּלְגֹּלֶתgulgôleth
skull, head, poll
Pronunciation: gul-go'-leth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1538
Meanings
1. skull (Judges 9:53; 2 Kings 9:35; 1 Chronicles 10:10)
2. head, poll (Exodus 16:16; Exodus 38:26; Numbers 1:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:16 These are the Lord’s instructions: Each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts for each person in your tent.”
- Exodus 38:26 This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.
- Numbers 1:2 “From the whole community of Israel, record the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men
- Numbers 1:18 and they assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day. All the people were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one,
- Numbers 1:20 -This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families:TribeNumberReuben (Jacob’s oldest son) 46,500
- Numbers 1:22 -Gad 45,650
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).