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Judges 16

Judg. 16:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Howbeit the hair
se`ar (Hebrew #8181)
from 8175 in the sense of dishevelling; hair (as if tossed or bristling)
KJV usage: hair(-y), X rough.
Pronounce: say-awr'
Origin: or sa.ar (Isaiah 7:20) {sah'-ar}
of his head
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
began
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
to grow again
tsamach (Hebrew #6779)
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
Pronounce: tsaw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
δafter
'aher (Hebrew #834)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
KJV usage: X after, X alike, as (soon as), because, X every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), X if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), X though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(- soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
Pronounce: ash-er'
Origin: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
he was shaven
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
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or, as when.

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Hair,
Head

Cross References

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the hair.
Lev. 26:44• 44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. (Lev. 26:44)
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Deut. 32:36• 36For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. (Deut. 32:36)
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Psa. 106:44‑45• 44Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
 45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. (Psa. 106:44‑45)
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Psa. 107:13‑14• 13Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
 14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. (Psa. 107:13‑14)
after he was shaven.
or, as when he was shaven.

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the hair of his head began to grow after he was shaved.