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gul.go.let H1538

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת (gul.go.let) means “head” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת Hebrew · H1538 12 tagged occurrences in 12 verses

Pronunciation guide: gul-go'-leth Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1538

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת · gul.go.let · head

1) head, poll, skull 1a) skull 1b) head, poll (of census)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

by reduplication from H1556 (גָּלַל); a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)

KJV glosses: head, every man, poll, skull.

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How translators render H1538

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
one by one 3
for each 1
for each one 1
his head 1
his skull 1
individually 1
one 1
per person 1
skull 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
by their polls 6
for every man 2
apiece by the poll 1
his head 1
his skull 1
the skull 1

Verses containing H1538

Page 1 of 1. 12 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Exodus 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  2. Exodus 38:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Numbers 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

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  4. Numbers 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  5. Numbers 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  6. Numbers 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  7. Numbers 3:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.

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  8. Judges 9:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.

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  9. 2 Kings 9:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

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  10. 1 Chronicles 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

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  11. 1 Chronicles 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

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  12. 1 Chronicles 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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Sources and text

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