Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
head
Usage: 1) head, poll, skull 1a) skull 1b) head, poll (of census)
Gulgoleth means “head” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1538 — hekastos (“any”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1538 גּוּלגּוֹלֶת (gulgoleth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gulgoleth (gul-go'-leth) n-f. 1. a skull (as round) 2. (by implication) a head (in enumeration of persons) It has 12 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include every, polls, skull, persons, and poll. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gulgoleth (gul-go'-leth) n-f. 1. a skull (as round) 2. (by implication) a head (in enumeration of persons) [by reduplication from H1556] KJV: head, every man, poll, skull. Root(s): H1556
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head
Usage: 1) head, poll, skull 1a) skull 1b) head, poll (of census)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gulgoleth, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1538.
This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1538, grouped by book.
Gulgoleth (Strong's H1538) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "head". gulgoleth (gul-go'-leth) n-f. 1. a skull (as round) 2. (by implication) a head (in enumeration of persons)
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H1538 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1538 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as every, polls, skull, persons, poll, and head. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.