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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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Ministry on This Verse

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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.
• {v.5-6} God was in none of their thoughts which were ruled by demons, and these last excesses were forbidden to Israelites in general. They profaned the name of their God, and were intolerable in those who presented the fire-offerings of Jehovah, the bread of their God as He graciously called them. (“Israel Holy to Jehovah: 10. Sanctity in the Priests” by W. Kelly)

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.

W. Kelly Translation

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