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Ezekiel 44

Ezek. 44:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Neitherf shall they shave
galach (Hebrew #1548)
properly, to be bald, i.e. (causatively) to shave; figuratively to lay waste
KJV usage: poll, shave (off).
Pronounce: gaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
their heads
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
, nor suffer their locks
pera` (Hebrew #6545)
the hair (as dishevelled)
KJV usage: locks.
Pronounce: peh'-rah
Origin: from 6544
to grow long
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
; they shall only
kacam (Hebrew #3697)
to shear
KJV usage: X only, poll. Compare 3765.
Pronounce: kaw-sam'
Origin: a primitive root
poll
kacam (Hebrew #3697)
to shear
KJV usage: X only, poll. Compare 3765.
Pronounce: kaw-sam'
Origin: a primitive root
their heads
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
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Lev. 21:5• 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. (Lev. 21:5)
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Lev. 21:5‑24• 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.
 6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
 7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
 8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
 9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
 10And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
 11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
 12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
 14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
 15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
 16And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
 17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
 18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
 19Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
 20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
 21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
 22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
 23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
 24And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. (Lev. 21:5‑24)
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Deut. 14:1• 1Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. (Deut. 14:1)
nor suffer.
Num. 6:5• 5All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. (Num. 6:5)
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1 Cor. 11:14• 14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (1 Cor. 11:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long: they shall duly poll their heads.