Baldness
גַּבַּ֫חַתStrong’s H1372gabbachat (gab-ba-chat)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gabbachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “on bald forehead his”, “on the bald forehead” and “on bald forehead its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.”
Meaning
- Bald forehead, bald, a bare spot
How it's translated
- on bald forehead his 2
- on the bald forehead 1
- on bald forehead its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:43Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
- Leviticus 13:55And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּבַּ֫חַת gabbachat · baldness
bald forehead, bald, a bare spot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “baldness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BALD'NESS, noun
Want of hair on the top and back of the head; loss of hair; meanness or inelegance of writing; want of ornament.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.