Strong's #1548: galach (pronounced gaw-lakh')

a primitive root; properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste:--poll, shave (off).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâlach

1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to shave

1a2) to shave off

1a3) (figuratively of devastation)

1b) (Pual) to be shaven

1c) (Hithpael) to shave oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

 

Genesis 41:14: "and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto"
Leviticus 13:33: " He shall be shaven, but the scurf shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scurf"
Leviticus 13:33: "He shall be shaven, but the scurf shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scurf"
Leviticus 14:8: "shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair,"
Leviticus 14:9: "But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off"
Leviticus 14:9: "his head and his beard and his eyebrows, his hair he shall shave off:"
Leviticus 21:5: "baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, make"
Numbers 6:9: "him, and he hath defiled the head then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh"
Numbers 6:9: "of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave"
Numbers 6:18: "And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,"
Numbers 6:19: "after the hair of his separation is shaven:"
Deuteronomy 21:12: "Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare"
Judges 16:17: "from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from"
Judges 16:19: "her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven of his head;"
Judges 16:22: "began to grow again after he was shaven."
2 Samuel 10:4: "David's servants, and shaved off the one half and cut off"
2 Samuel 14:26: " And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end"
2 Samuel 14:26: "(for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because"
2 Samuel 14:26: "at every year's end that he polled it: because on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed"
1 Chronicles 19:4: "David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off in the midst"
Isaiah 7:20: "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river,"
Jeremiah 41:5: "from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes"
Ezekiel 44:20: "Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll"