גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת
gul.go.let
“head”
Definition
a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)
by reduplication from H1556 (גָּלַל);
- head, poll, skull 1a) skull 1b) head, poll (of census)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
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.
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.’”
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
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,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.