2 Samuel 14:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּֽבְגַלְּחוֹ֮ אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ֒ וְֽ֠הָיָה מִקֵּ֨ץ יָמִ֤ים ׀ לַיָּמִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְגַלֵּ֔חַ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֥ד עָלָ֖יו וְגִלְּח֑וֹ וְשָׁקַל֙ אֶת־שְׂעַ֣ר רֹאשׁ֔וֹ מָאתַ֥יִם שְׁקָלִ֖ים בְּאֶ֥בֶן הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Transliteration

And-in-gallǝḥô ʾet-rōʾšô, wə-hāyāh from-qēṣ yāmîm to-the-yāmîm that yəgallēaḥ, for-kābēd upon-him wə-gillǝḥô; wə-šāqal ʾet-śəʿar rōʾšô two-hundred šəqālîm by-ʾeben the-melek.

Grammar Details

• *gallǝḥô*: Piel infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his cutting/shaving
• *rōʾšô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his head
• *wə-hāyāh*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and it was
• *qēṣ*: masculine singular construct - end of
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *yəgallēaḥ*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he would shave
• *kābēd*: adjective, masculine singular - heavy
• *wə-gillǝḥô*: conjunction + Piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and he shaved it
• *wə-šāqal*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he weighed
• *śəʿar*: masculine singular construct - hair of
• *šəqālîm*: masculine plural noun - shekels
• *ʾeben*: construct state of feminine singular noun - stone/weight of
• *melek*: masculine singular noun - king

Word Meanings

• *qēṣ*: end/conclusion/termination
• *kābēd*: heavy/burdensome/numerous
• *šəqālîm*: shekels (unit of weight)
• *ʾeben*: stone/weight/standard measure

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 18:9 : 9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
• Ezek 44:20 : 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
• Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; 14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
• 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
• Isa 3:24 : 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.
• Gen 23:16 : 16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
• Lev 19:36 : 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.