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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BALD LOCUST

bold lo'kust.

See LOCUST.

Strong's Hebrew

7139. qarach -- to make bald
... 7138, 7139. qarach. 7140 . to make bald. Transliteration: qarach Phonetic Spelling:
(kaw-rakh') Short Definition: make. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7142. qereach -- bald
... 7141, 7142. qereach. 7143 . bald. Transliteration: qereach Phonetic Spelling:
(kay-ray'-akh) Short Definition: baldhead. ... bald head. ...
/hebrew/7142.htm - 6k

1371. gibbeach -- having a bald forehead
... 1370, 1371. gibbeach. 1372 . having a bald forehead. Transliteration: gibbeach
Phonetic Spelling: (ghib-bay'-akh) Short Definition: forehead. ... forehead bald. ...
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1372. gabbachath -- a bald forehead
... 1371, 1372. gabbachath. 1373 . a bald forehead. Transliteration: gabbachath
Phonetic Spelling: (gab-bakh'-ath) Short Definition: forehead. ...
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7144. qorchah -- baldness, bald spot
... 7143, 7144. qorchah or qorcha. 7145 . baldness, bald spot. Transliteration:
qorchah or qorcha Phonetic Spelling: (kor-khaw') Short Definition: baldness. ...
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4803. marat -- to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish
... 4802, 4803. marat. 4804 . to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish.
Transliteration: marat Phonetic Spelling: (maw-rat') Short Definition: polished. ...
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1548. galach -- to be bald, shave, shave off
... 1547, 1548. galach. 1549 . to be bald, shave, shave off. Transliteration: galach
Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-lakh') Short Definition: shave. Word Origin a prim ...
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7143. Qareach -- "bald one," a man of Judah
... 7142, 7143. Qareach. 7144 . "bald one," a man of Judah. Transliteration: Qareach
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-ray'-akh) Short Definition: Kareah. ...
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7146. qarachath -- baldness of head
... Word Origin from qarach Definition baldness of head NASB Word Usage bald head
(2), bareness* (1), head (1), top (1). bald head, bare within. ...
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7140. qerach -- frost, ice
... crystal, frost, ice. Or qorach {ko'-rakh}; from qarach; ice (as if bald, ie Smooth);
hence, hail; by resemblance, rock crystal -- crystal, frost, ice. ...
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Library

Psalm XLVII.
... When God's Prophet Elisha was going up, children called after him mocking, "Go up
thou bald head, Go up thou bald head:" but he, not so much in cruelty as in ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xlvii.htm

Election
... Remember what became of the children who found fault with God's prophet, and exclaimed,
"Go up, thou bald-head; go up, thou bald-head." Say nothing against ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/election.htm

A Prophet of Peace
... These youth had heard of Elijah's ascension, and they made this solemn event the
subject of their jeers, saying to Elisha, "Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 19 a prophet of.htm

Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
... But Dioscorus the shipmaster, being himself also bald, wearing his shipmaster's
dress, and speaking boldly, on the first day went out into the city of Pontiole ...
/.../unknown/acts of the holy apostles peter and paul/acts of the holy apostles.htm

Of the Gods Peculiar to the Romans, and their Sacred Rites.
... by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military
engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xx of the gods peculiar.htm

Christ Our Passover
... I venture to believe that the Lord's Supper is nothing more. I know how people
talk about the bare, bald, Zwinglian ideas of the Communion. ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/christ our passover.htm

Paul Before his Conversion.
... more probably of the fourth century), Malala of Antioch (sixth century), and Nicephorus
(fifteenth century), represent Paul as little in stature, bald, with a ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 30 paul before his.htm

Papal Tombs.
... The type never varies: S. Peter's face is full and strong, with short curly hair
and beard, while S. Paul appears more wiry and thin, slightly bald, with a ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter v papal tombs.htm

Acts of Paul and Thecla.
... And he saw Paul coming, a man small in size, bald-headed, bandy-legged, well-built,
[2108] with eyebrows meeting, rather long-nosed, full of grace. ...
/.../unknown/acts of paul and thecla/acts of paul and thecla.htm

The Church and the Empire
... "Usually such an 'outline' is a bald and bloodless summary, but Mr. Bruce has
written a narrative which is both readable and well-informed. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/medley/the church and the empire/title page.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

2. (a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.

3. (a.) Undisguised.

4. (a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.

5. (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

6. (a.) Destitute of the natural covering.

7. (a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

Thesaurus

Bald (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair,
feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. ...
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Bald-head (1 Occurrence)
Bald-head. Baldhead, Bald-head. Baldness . Multi-Version Concordance
Bald-head (1 Occurrence). 2 Kings 2:23 And he went ...
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Forehead-bald (1 Occurrence)
Forehead-bald. Forehead, Forehead-bald. Foreheads . Multi-Version
Concordance Forehead-bald (1 Occurrence). Leviticus ...
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Baldness (11 Occurrences)
... to (Micah 1:16; Amos 8:10; Jeremiah 47:5). The Jews were forbidden to follow the
customs of surrounding nations in making themselves bald (Deuteronomy 14:1). ...
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White-reddish (4 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white-reddish
sore, it is a leprosy which hath broken out in his bald head, or his bald...
/w/white-reddish.htm - 7k

Infectious (19 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 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...
/i/infectious.htm - 12k

Reddish-white (4 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 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...
/r/reddish-white.htm - 7k

Reddish (6 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 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...
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Diseased (39 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a
reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald...
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Infection (24 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 13:42 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...
/i/infection.htm - 14k

Bible Concordance

Bald (12 Occurrences)

Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 13:40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 13:41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 13:42 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 13:43 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,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Kings 2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 3:17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
(WEB DBY NIV)

Jeremiah 16:6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Ezekiel 27:31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Micah 1:16 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Bald

Bald Eagle

Bald Locust

Related Terms

Bald-head (1 Occurrence)

Forehead-bald (1 Occurrence)

Baldness (11 Occurrences)

White-reddish (4 Occurrences)

Infectious (19 Occurrences)

Reddish-white (4 Occurrences)

Reddish (6 Occurrences)