Definition

a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)

Etymology

by reduplication from H1556 (גָּלַל);

Where the KJV renders it

• head
• every man
• poll
• skull

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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