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title: גִּבֵּחַ — having a bald forehead · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּבֵּחַ (1371), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: having a bald forehead. BDB 1906: adj. having bald forehead. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּבֵּחַ

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«גִּבֵּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **having a bald forehead** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1371 · **BDB:** גִּבֵּחַ

### Glosses

\[is\].bald (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

having a bald forehead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. having bald forehead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. having a bald forehead, ג׳ הוּא Lv 13:41 (P ‖ קֵרֵחַ הוּא v 40).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּבֵּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1371/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 13:41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.41/)

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וְאִם֙ מִפְּאַ֣ת פָּנָ֔יו יִמָּרֵ֖ט רֹאשׁ֑וֹ גִּבֵּ֥חַ ה֖וּא טָה֥וֹר הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and if from the.side his.face his it.will.become.bare head his \[is\].bald he \[is\].pure he

*JPS 1917:* And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.

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