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Leviticus 21

Lev. 21:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They shall not make
qarach (Hebrew #7139)
to depilate
KJV usage: make (self) bald.
Pronounce: kaw-rakh'
Origin: a primitive root
baldness
qorchah (Hebrew #7144)
(Ezek. 27:31) {kor-khaw'}; from 7139; baldness
KJV usage: bald(-ness), X utterly.
Pronounce: kor-khaw'
Origin: or qorcha
upon their 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
, neither shall they shave off
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
the corner
pe'ah (Hebrew #6285)
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
KJV usage: corner, end, quarter, side.
Pronounce: pay-aw'
Origin: feminine of 6311
of their beard
zaqan (Hebrew #2206)
the beard (as indicating age)
KJV usage: beard.
Pronounce: zaw-kawn'
Origin: from 2204
, nor make
sarat (Hebrew #8295)
to gash
KJV usage: cut in pieces, make (cuttings) pieces.
Pronounce: saw-rat'
Origin: a primitive root
any cuttings
seret (Hebrew #8296)
from 8295; an incision
KJV usage: cutting.
Pronounce: seh'-ret
Origin: and sareteth {saw-reh'-teth}
in their flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
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Baldness,
Beard,
Cuttings in the Flesh,
Flesh,
Shaving

Cross References

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not make baldness.This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head, (ch. 19:27,) and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol.
Lev. 10:6• 6And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons, Your heads shall ye not uncover, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come on all the assembly; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled. (Lev. 10:6)
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Lev. 19:27‑28• 27--Ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.
 28And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 19:27‑28)
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Deut. 14:1• 1Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. (Deut. 14:1)
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Isa. 15:2• 2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. (Isa. 15:2)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)
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Jer. 16:6• 6Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. (Jer. 16:6)
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Jer. 48:37• 37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. (Jer. 48:37)
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Ezek. 44:20• 20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long: they shall duly poll their heads. (Ezek. 44:20)
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Amos 8:10• 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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Mic. 1:16• 16Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee. (Mic. 1:16)
the corner.The Hebrew {peath zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies.
These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [qtswtsy p'h,] those with cropped whiskers.
Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

J. N. Darby Translation

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They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.