2 Samuel 14:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he polled his head,(for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled 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

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 18:9 : 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a 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 the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
Ezek 44:20 : 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. 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 an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an 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 of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Isa 3:24 : 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning 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 sons 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 the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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