# H1538 גֻּלְגֹּלֶת

גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (gulgôleth), Strong’s H1538: a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons) KJV: head, every man, poll, skull.. Occurs 12 times.

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

KJV: head, every man, poll, skull.

Derived from [גָּלַל gâlal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1556) (to roll)

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת n.f. skull, head, poll (person)
- 1 skull
- 2 head, poll (in counting, taxing, etc.; only P and late)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=16) — This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head…
- [Exodus 38:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=26) — a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those…
- [Numbers 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=2) — “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses…
- [Numbers 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=18) — They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by…
- [Numbers 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=20) — The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according…
- [Numbers 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=22) — Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of…
- [Numbers 3:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/3?v=47) — you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the…
- [Judges 9:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=53) — A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.
- [2 Kings 9:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/9?v=35) — They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- [1 Chronicles 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/10?v=10) — They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.