גֻּלְגֹּלֶת

gul.go.let

head

Strong’s H1538Noun, feminine12 times in the Hebrew Bible

heads4

head3

skull3

skulls2

In the text

Exodus 16:16לַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת
This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
Numbers 1:2לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
Judges 9:53גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֹ
But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
2 Kings 9:35הַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
1 Chronicles 10:10גֻּלְגָּלְתּוֹ
They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת n.f. skull, head, poll (person)

1. skull

2. head, poll (in counting, taxing, etc.; only P and late)

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.