Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to shave
Usage: 1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to shave 1a2) to shave off 1a3) (fig. of devastation) 1b)(Pual) to be shaven 1c) (Hithpael) to shave oneself
Galach means “poll” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1548 — ekgamisko (“give in marriage”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1548 גָּלַח (galach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. galach (gaw-lakh') v. 1. (properly) to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave 2. figuratively to lay waste It has 18 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include shave, off, shaved, and polled. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
galach (gaw-lakh') v. 1. (properly) to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave 2. figuratively to lay waste [a primitive root] KJV: poll, shave (off).
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to shave
Usage: 1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to shave 1a2) to shave off 1a3) (fig. of devastation) 1b)(Pual) to be shaven 1c) (Hithpael) to shave oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render galach, 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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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1548.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1548, grouped by book.
Galach (Strong's H1548) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "poll". galach (gaw-lakh') v. 1. (properly) to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave 2. figuratively to lay waste
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H1548 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1548 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as shave, off, shaved, and polled. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.