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Strong's #4803: marat (pronounced maw-rat')

a primitive root; to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen:--bright, furbish, (have his) hair (be) fallen off, peeled, pluck off (hair).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâraṭ

1) to bare, polish, make smooth or bald or bare

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to make bare

1a2) to scour, polish

1b) (Niphal) to be made bald

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Leviticus 13:40: "And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean."
Leviticus 13:41: " And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he"
1 Kings 7:45: "Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass."
Ezra 9:3: "my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard,"
Nehemiah 13:25: "them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give"
Isaiah 50:6: "my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame"
Ezekiel 21:9: "a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:"
Ezekiel 21:10: "It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter:"
Ezekiel 21:11: "And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it"
Ezekiel 21:11: "this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer."
Ezekiel 21:28: "thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:"
Ezekiel 29:18: "was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army,"









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