galach · shave

What it means

galach (גָּלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shave”.

The Egyptians came before the king shaved.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To cut off all the hair of head or beard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• shave ×12
• He shaved ×2
• he shaved it ×2
• shaved off ×2
• I am shaved ×1
• beards shaved ×1
• he had been shaved ×1
• shaved them ×1
• she shaved ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×3
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. He shaved, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

• Leviticus 13:33

  he shall shave himself, but the ringworm he shall not shave; and the priest shall isolate the one with the ringworm seven days a second time.

• Leviticus 14:8

  The one being purified shall wash his garments, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he will be clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but he shall remain outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 14:9

  On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: his head, his beard, and the brows of his eyes; all his hair he shall shave off; he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.

• Leviticus 21:5

  They shall not make bald spots on their head, and the edge of their beard they shall not shave off, and in their flesh they shall not make cuts.

• Numbers 6:9

  And if someone dies beside him very suddenly and makes unclean his consecrated head, he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

• Numbers 6:18

  And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the hair of his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of peace.

• Numbers 6:19

  And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them on the palms of the Nazirite after he has shaved off his consecration.

• Deuteronomy 21:12

  then you shall bring her into your house, and she shall shave her head and do her nails,

• Judges 16:17

  So he opened to her all his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come up on my head, for I have been a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb of my mother. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any human being.”

• Judges 16:19

  She made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man and she shaved the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.

• Judges 16:22

  But the hair of his head began to grow after he had been shaved.

• 2 Samuel 10:4

  So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, as far as their buttocks, and sent them away.

• 2 Samuel 14:26

  When he shaved his head —and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him, and he shaved it —he weighed the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the weight of the king.

• 1 Chronicles 19:4

  So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle, as far as the hips, and sent them away.

• Isaiah 7:20

  On that day Adonai will shave with a hired razor from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also sweep away the beard.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved and their garments torn and cutting themselves, with a grain offering and frankincense in their hand to bring to the house of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 44:20

  And their heads they shall not shave, and long hair they shall not let loose; they shall surely trim their heads.

And 5 more times.