2 Samuel 14:26
Old Testament • 19 words with Strong's data
"And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
קֵץ
qêts
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
כָּבֵד
kâbêd
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
שָׁקַל
shâqal
to suspend or poise (especially in trade)
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
שְׁנַיִם
shᵉnayim
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
מֵאָה
mêʼâh
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
שֶׁקֶל
sheqel
probably a weight; used as a commercial standard
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
מִשְׁקָל
mishqâl
weight (numerically estimated); hence, weighing (the act)
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּבֵד kâbêd
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
Study H3515 →מִשְׁקָל mishqâl
weight (numerically estimated); hence, weighing (the act)
Study H4948 →Cross References
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heave...
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; a...
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