Gulgôleth — H1538

Definition

feminine noun

a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)

1. head, poll, skull
1. skull
2. head, poll (of census)

Usually translated as

every man, skull, head, poll

Origin

by reduplication from H1556

• Derived from Gâlal (H1556)

Greek equivalents

• Golgothâ (G1115)
• kephalḗ (G2776)
• kraníon (G2898)

Occurrences

Gulgôleth occurs 12 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Numbers (5), Judges (1), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (3)

• Exodus 16:16 — This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man (לַגֻּלְגֹּ֗לֶת), according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
• Exodus 38:26 — A bekah for every man (לַגֻּלְגֹּ֔לֶת), 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 1:2 — Take 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 (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם);
• Numbers 1:18 — And 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 (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם).
• Numbers 1:20 — And 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 (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם), every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:22 — Of 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 (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם), every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 3:47 — Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll (לַגֻּלְגֹּ֑לֶת), after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
• Judges 9:53 — And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull (גֻּלְגָּלְתּֽוֹ).
• 2 Kings 9:35 — And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull (הַגֻּלְגֹּ֛לֶת), and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
• 1 Chronicles 10:10 — And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head (גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹ) in the temple of Dagon.
• 1 Chronicles 23:3 — Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙), man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
• 1 Chronicles 23:24 — These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls (לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם), that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.