# גָּלַח (galach)

Israeli respelling: ga-lach. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1548. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste

King James renderings: poll, shave (off).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/galach-h1548

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 41:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/14) — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and c…
- [Leviticus 13:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/33) — He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
- [Leviticus 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/8) — And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and afte…
- [Leviticus 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/9) — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shal…
- [Leviticus 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/5) — They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
- [Numbers 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/9) — And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his c…
- [Numbers 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/18) — And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the h…
- [Numbers 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/19) — And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall pu…
- [Deuteronomy 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/12) — Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
- [Judges 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/17) — That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my…
- [Judges 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/19) — And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began…
- [Judges 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/22) — Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
- [2 Samuel 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/4) — Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their…
- [2 Samuel 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/26) — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:)…
- [1 Chronicles 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/4) — Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
- [Isaiah 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/20) — In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and th…
- [Jeremiah 41:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/41/5) — That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent…
- [Ezekiel 44:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/20) — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.