UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Notes: Passage: OET ISA 7:20
The expression "the head and the hair of the feet" may be a hendiadys for the "whole body" | alternatively, "feet" may be a euphemism for "genitals"

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Sense 1: to shave (oneself), to cut off (hair)

Semantic domains: Detach (002003001008)

Core domains: Body (019)

Definition: = action by which humans cut the hair on all or part of their body

Forms: vbpiel; vbhit-; vbpual (passive)

Show passage in OET: GEN 41:14

OET-RV GEN 41:14

14 So Par’oh sent for Yosef (Joseph), and they quickly brought him in from the pit. When he’d shaved and changed his clothes, he was brought in to the king

OET-LV GEN 41:14

14 And_ Parˊoh _he _sent and_he/it _called DOM Yōşēf/(Joseph) and_people_brought _him _quickly from the_pit and_he _shaved and_he _changed clothes _of_his and_he _came to Parˊoh.

Show passage in OET: LEV 13:33

OET-RV LEV 13:33

33 then that person should shave their head, and then the priest should quarantine them for a further seven days.

OET-LV LEV 13:33

33 And_he _will _shave _himself and_DOM the_scall not he _will _shave and_ the_priest/officer _he _will _shut _up DOM the_scall seven _of days a _second.

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All 12 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 41:14

LEV: OET LEV 13:33 · OET LEV 14:8–9 · OET LEV 21:5

NUM: OET NUM 6:9 · OET NUM 6:18–19

DEU: OET DEU 21:12

SA2: OET SA2 14:26

JER: OET JER 41:5

EZE: OET EZE 44:20

Sense 2: to shave (someone), to cut off (someone's hair)

Semantic domains: Detach (002003001008)

Core domains: Body (019)

Definition: = causative action by which humans cut the hair on all or part of the body of someone else

Forms: vbpiel; vbpual (passive)

Show passage in OET: JDG 16:17

OET-RV JDG 16:17

17 So finally he told her his secret, “My hair has never been cut because I’ve been a Nazirite to God since my birth. If my head would be shaved, then my strength would leave me, and I’d become weak—I’d be just like any other man.”

OET-LV JDG 16:17

17 And_he _told to/for_her/it DOM all _of his/its_heart and_he/it _said to/for_her/it a _razor not it _has _come _up on my_head if/because am_a _Nāzīr _of god I from_the _womb _of my _mother _of_my if I _was _shaved and_it _will _depart from_me strength _of_my and_I _will _be _weak and_I _will _be like_every _of the_humankind.

Show passage in OET: JDG 16:19

OET-RV JDG 16:19

19 Then she made him fall asleep on her knees, and she called in a man to shave off his seven locks of hair, causing him to start to weaken, and his additional strength left him.

OET-LV JDG 16:19

19 And_she_made _him _sleep on knees _of_her and_she/it _called/named (to)_man and_she _shaved _off DOM seven the _plaits _of his/its_head and_she _began to_humble_him and_ strength _of_his _it _departed from_on_him.

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All 6 recorded passages for this sense

JDG: OET JDG 16:17 · OET JDG 16:19 · OET JDG 16:22

SA2: OET SA2 10:4

CH1: OET CH1 19:4

ISA: OET ISA 7:20

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

גלח

Form 1

Sense 1: to shave (oneself), to cut off (hair)

Sense 2: to shave (someone), to cut off (someone's hair)