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קֵרֵחַ

qe.re.ach

bald

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Strong’s H7142Adjective3 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

o bald man2

is bald1

In the text

Leviticus 13:40קֵרֵחַ
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
2 Kings 2:23קֵרֵחַ
From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קֵרֵחַ adj. bald;—Lv 13:40; n.m. 2 K 2:23, 23.

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.