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גַּבַּחַת

gabbachath · H1372 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. baldness of the forehead

    A condition by which the front part of someone's head is without hair

    Examples

    Leviticus 13:42 “But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

    Leviticus 13:43 “Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

  2. outer side

    Meaning unsure; possibly: a reference to that part of a piece of clothing that faces the outside, where the tufts stand up

    Examples

    Leviticus 13:55 “After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even if the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the back or on the front of it.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
קׇרְחָה qorchâh · H7144 · bald spot
Both words denote baldness: גַּבַּחַת (gabbachath, H1372) specifies a bald forehead (frontal baldness), while קׇרְחָה (qorchâh, H7144) refers to baldness generally. They describe the same or closely overlapping physical condition.
קָרַחַת qârachath · H7146 · bald head, inner side
Both words denote specific types of baldness on the head, differing only in anatomical location (forehead versus crown or back).
Semantic domains 2 entries
Bald002001001007
גַּבַּחַת names the bald forehead itself as a body part, as in the diagnosis of a reddish-white infection on the bald forehead in Leviticus 13:42-43.
Spatial Referents003002005
The word also functions as a spatial locative, distinguishing the forehead region from the back of the head, as reflected in Leviticus 13:55's contrast between front and back.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גִּבֵּחַ gibbêach · H1371 · bald on the forehead · 1×גַּבַּחַתgabbachath · H1372
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1372. gabbachath גַּבַּ֫חַת noun feminine bald forehead (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic ),…
H1372. gabbachath
גַּבַּ֫חַת noun feminine bald forehead (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic ), only Leviticus 13 — absolute Lev 13:42 (P; asson. בַגַּבַּ֫חַת אוֺ בְּקָרַ֫חַת); גַּבַּחְתּוֺ Lev 13:42; Lev 13:43 (both P & || קָרַחְתּוֺ); in all, as place of appearance of an eruption; Lev 13:55 (P; || id.) = in its front, i.e. front of garment.
גֹּבַי see below גבה.
סַלָּ֑י גַּבַּי גַּבַּי, see below גבב.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Bald3 occurrencesSpatial Referents1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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