gulgolet (head) · Rightly

Meaning

Head, poll, skullskull · head, poll (of census)

How it's translated

to heads their 4
for the head 3
skull his 2
to skulls their 2
the skull 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

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

5 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 38:26A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Numbers 1:2Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers 1:18And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers 1:20And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:22Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 3:47Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

All 12 verses, by book

Exodus 2: 16:16 38:26
Numbers 5: 1:2 1:18 1:20 1:22 3:47
Judges 1: 9:53
2 Kings 1: 9:35
1 Chronicles 3: 10:10 23:3 23:24

Hebrew dictionary

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת gulgolet · head

1) head, poll, skull 1a) skull 1b) head, poll (of census)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “head” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HEAD, noun

hed.

The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals.
An animal; an individual; as, the tax was raised by a certain rate per head And we use the singular number to express many.
A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place, and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party. Ephesians 5:23
The first place; the place of honor, or of command.

All definitions and other forms of “head”

Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head to show the head
Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head or a strong head These men laid their heads together to form the scheme.
Face; front; forepart.
Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head on their own head But of is more usual than on.
State of a deer's horns by which his age is known.
The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.
The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also, the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.
The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.
The brain.
The dress of the head; as a laced head [Unusual.]
The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.
Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels.
Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.
Crisis; pitch; highth.
Influence; force; strength; pitch.
Body; conflux.
Power; armed force.
Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head Hence,
License; freedom from check, control or restraint.
The hair of the head; as a head of hair.
The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.
The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.
The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.
The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head is to suppurate.

HEAD, verb transitive

hed. To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.

To behead; to decapitate. [Unusual.]
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
To lop; as, to head trees.
To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.
To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship; as, the wind heads us.

HEAD, verb intransitive

hed. To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.