gulgolet · head; per head

What it means

gulgolet (גֻּלְגֹּלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “head; per head”.

Skull, head; when people are counted, "per head". From this word comes "Golgotha".

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. The bones of the head, which enclose the brain.
2. One by one, when counting people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• head by head ×6
• per head ×3
• skull ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×5
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×3

• Exodus 16:16

  This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one according to what he can eat, an omer per head, according to the number of your persons; each one for those in his tent you shall take.’ ”

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

• Numbers 1:2

  “Take a census of the whole community of the sons of Israel by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

• Numbers 1:18

  and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month, and they declared their descent by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

• Numbers 1:20

  The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:22

  Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them counted, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 3:47

  you shall take five shekels apiece per head; you shall take them by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel being twenty gerahs.

• Judges 9:53

  But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on the head of Abimelech and crushed his skull.

• 2 Kings 9:35

  They went to bury her, but they did not find of her anything but the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands.

• 1 Chronicles 10:10

  And they put his weapons in the house of their gods, and his skull they fastened in the house of Dagon.

• 1 Chronicles 23:3

  The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number head by head, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 23:24

  These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of the fathers’ houses according to those of them counted, by the number of names, head by head, doing the work for the service of the house of YHWH, from twenty years old and upward.