גֻּלְגֹּלֶת
gulgôleth · H1538 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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skull
A bone framework enclosing the brain of a vertebrate; sometimes used metonymically to represent an entire human being
Examples2 Kings 9:35 So they went to bury her, but they found nothing of her except the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
1 Chronicles 23:3 Now the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number by head count of men was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, the heads of the fathers’ households of those among them who were counted, in the number of names by their head count, doing the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.
How it’s used In 4 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
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- הֶםtheir 6
- הוּhis 2
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- רָצַץto oppress, to crush, to break 1
- תָּקַעto blow, to thrust 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֶּקַעa half shekel 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 13
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- κεφαλή kephalḗ · G2776 · head, one who is the head of, one who is superior to
- Greek κεφαλή renders Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּלֶת in contexts denoting the physical head or skull, with both terms sharing the anatomical core sense; the Hebrew term carries additional census/poll counting nuances that the Greek does not typically express.
- κρανίον kraníon · G2898 · a skull
- Greek κρανίον specifically denotes the physical skull as an anatomical object, corresponding to the 'skull' sense within the broader semantic range of Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (which can also mean 'head' or 'poll' in census contexts); the alignment confirms direct translation equivalence where the skull-as-object meaning is in view.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- The noun denotes a head counted individually in a census, used of persons numbered "head by head" or assessed a fixed sum "per head" in wilderness census and tabernacle-tax accounts.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1538. gulgoleth גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine skull, head, poll (person) (on formation…
גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine skull, head, poll (person) (on formation compare BaNB 205; Aramaic גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא) — absolute ׳ג 2Ki 9:35 2Ki 9:3t.; suffix גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֺ Jdg 9:53; 1Ch 10:10; plural suffix גֻּלְגְּלֹתָם Num 1:2 Num 1:5t.; —
1 skull, as broken by a stone Jdg 9:53; as severed from body 2Ki 9:35; 1Ch 10:10.
2 head, poll (in counting, taxing, etc.; only P and late) לַגּ ׳עֹמֶר Exo 16:16 an omer for every man; compare Exo 38:26; Num 1:2, Num 1:18, Num 1:20, Num 1:22; Num 3:47; 1Ch 23:3, 1Ch 23:24.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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