גַּבַּ֫חַת
bald
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 3 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1372 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 13:42 בַ/גַּבַּ֔חַת בְ/גַבַּחְתּֽ/וֹ prep det + n c fs prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
- Leviticus 13:43 בְ/גַבַּחְתּ֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,
- Leviticus 13:55 בְ/גַבַּחְתּֽ/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“bald” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun גבחת (gabbachath). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Leviticus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 13:42. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1372 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Or bald forehead 1×, Or his bald forehead 1×, Or in his bald forehead 1×
- American Standard Version: Or his bald forehead 1×, Or in his bald forehead 1×, Or the bald forehead 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Forehead 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Front balding spot 3×, His 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1372 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1372 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1372 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1372 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- bald forehead, bald, a bare spot
Word origin
גַּבַּ֫חַת n.f. bald forehead
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גבח (gibbêach) (H1371) — bald forehead.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גִּבַּחַת
- , v. גִּבֵּחַ
גַּבַּחַת
- 1. high forehead; baldness in front. Ḥull. 65ᵇ הַבָּא ואין לו ג׳ a species of locusts which occasionally appear, having no long-stretched heads (= ראשו ארוך ib.); [Ar.: a protuberance on the back, hump]. Neg. X, 10 הג׳ a leprous affection on the front of the head (making it bald). Ib. איזו היא ג׳ מן הקדקד וכ׳ which portion of the head is called gabbaḥath? From the crown sliding down forward to where the hair begins on the forehead; Sifra Thazr. Par. 5. ch. X. Tosef. Neg. IV, 11; a. fr.
- 2. the front or outside of cloth; the nap of new cloth, opp. קרחת. Sifra l. c. ch. XV בְּגַבַּחְתּוֹ אלו חדשים b’gabbaḥto (Lev. XIII, 55) means new cloths (v. Targ. O. a. l.). e.g. Leviticus 13:55
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H1372 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְ/גַבַּחְתּֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 13:42 | 2 |
| בְ/גַבַּחְתּ֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 13:43 | 1 |
| בַ/גַּבַּ֔חַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:42 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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