To shave
גָּלַחStrong’s H1548galach (ga-lach)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galach is the Hebrew word usually translated “shave”, “shaved” and “shave himself”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.”
Meaning
- To poll, shave, shave off, be bald(Piel) · (Pual) to be shaven · (Hithpael) to shave oneself
How it's translated
- he will shave 4
- and he will shave 3
- and he shaved 2
- they will shave 2
- and he will shave himself 1
- he will shave it 1
- he has shaved himself 1
- and she will shave 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Numbers 3
- Judges 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:33He 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 14:8And 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 after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
- Leviticus 14:9But 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 shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 21:5They 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 6:9And 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 cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
- Numbers 6:18And 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 head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּלַח galach · to shave
1) to poll, shave, shave off, be bald 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to shave 1a2) to shave off 1a3) (fig. of devastation) 1b)(Pual) to be shaven 1c) (Hithpael) to shave oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAVE, verb transitive
preterit tense shaved; participle passive shaved or shaven.
- To cut or pare off something from the surface of the body by a razor or other edged instrument, by rubbing, scraping or drawing the instrument along the surface; as, tto shave the chin and cheeks; to shave the head of its hair.“He shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing” Numbers 6:9
- To shave off, to cut off.“Neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard” Leviticus 21:5
- To pare close.
- To cut off thin slices; or tho cut in thin slices.
All definitions and other forms of “shave”
- To skim along the surface near it; to sweep along.
- To strip; to oppress by extortion; to fleece.
- To make smooth by paring or cutting off slices; as, to shave hoops or staves.
SHAVE, noun
An instrument with a long blade and a handle at each end for shaving hoops, etc.; called also a drawing knife.
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.