Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 3808 [e] לֹֽא־ lō- Not Adv-NegPrt   [יקרחה] [yiq-rə-ḥāh - Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular V-Qal-Imperf-3fs   ḵ]   7139 [e] (יִקְרְח֤וּ) (yiq-rə-ḥū they shall make V-Qal-Imperf-3mp   q)   7144 [e] קָרְחָה֙ qā-rə-ḥāh any bald [place] N-fs 7218 [e] בְּרֹאשָׁ֔ם bə-rō-šām, on their heads Prep-b | N-msc | 3mp 6285 [e] וּפְאַ֥ת ū-p̄ə-’aṯ and the edges Conj-w | N-fsc 2206 [e] זְקָנָ֖ם zə-qā-nām of their beards N-csc | 3mp 3808 [e] לֹ֣א lō nor Adv-NegPrt 1548 [e] יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ yə-ḡal-lê-ḥū; shall they shave V-Piel-Imperf-3mp 1320 [e] וּבִ֨בְשָׂרָ֔ם ū-ḇiḇ-śā-rām, and in their flesh Conj-w, Prep-b | N-msc | 3mp 3808 [e] לֹ֥א lō nor Adv-NegPrt 8295 [e] יִשְׂרְט֖וּ yiś-rə-ṭū make V-Qal-Imperf-3mp 8296 [e] שָׂרָֽטֶת׃ śā-rā-ṭeṯ. any cuttings N-fs

New American Standard Bible
'They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

King James Bible
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

not make baldness This custom is also called {rounding the corners of the head}

Leviticus 19:27 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you …

and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol

Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, …

Leviticus 19:27,28 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you …

Deuteronomy 14:1 You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, …

Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: …

Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …

Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not …

Jeremiah 48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: on all the …

Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow …

Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into …

Micah 1:16 Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your …

the corner The Hebrew {peakth zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [], those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

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