גָּלַחgâlach
be bald
Pronunciation: gaw-lakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1548
Meanings
Pi`el: shave, shave off (Leviticus 14:8; 2 Samuel 14:26; Deuteronomy 21:12)
1. shave (Numbers 6:9; Numbers 6:18; Deuteronomy 21:12)
2. shave off (Leviticus 14:8; Leviticus 14:9; Judges 16:19)
3. figurative (Isaiah 7:20)
4. intransitive he shaved (himself) (Genesis 41:14)
Pu`al: be shaven (Judges 16:22; Judges 16:17; Jeremiah 41:5)
Hithpa`el: shave oneself (Leviticus 13:33; Numbers 6:19)
Where it appears
Appears 23 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:14 Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once, and he was quickly brought from the prison. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh.
- Leviticus 13:33 the person must shave off all hair except the hair on the affected area. Then the priest must quarantine the person for another seven days.
- Leviticus 14:8 “The persons being purified must then wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean and may return to the camp. However, they must remain outside their tents for seven days.
- Leviticus 14:9 On the seventh day they must again shave all the hair from their heads, including the hair of the beard and eyebrows. They must also wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean.
- Leviticus 21:5 “The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.
- Numbers 6:9 “If someone falls dead beside them, the hair they have dedicated will be defiled. They must wait for seven days and then shave their heads. Then they will be cleansed from their defilement.
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).