2 Samuel 14:26
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.
KJV
Et quando tondebat capillum (semel autem in anno tondebatur, quia gravabat eum cæsaries), ponderabat capillos capitis sui ducentis siclis, pondere publico.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐν τῷ κείρεσθαι αὐτὸν τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐγένετο ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς ἡμερῶν εἰς ἡμέρας ὡς ἂν ἐκείρετο, ὅτι κατεβαρύνετο ἐπ’ αὐτόν, καὶ κειρόμενος αὐτὴν ἔστησεν τὴν τρίχα τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ διακοσίους σίκλους ἐν τῷ σίκλῳ τῷ βασιλικῷ.
LXX
And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
ASV
וּֽ/בְ/גַלְּח/וֹ֮ אֶת רֹאשׁ/וֹ֒ וְֽ֠/הָיָה מִ/קֵּ֨ץ יָמִ֤ים לַ/יָּמִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְגַלֵּ֔חַ כִּֽי כָבֵ֥ד עָלָ֖י/ו וְ/גִלְּח֑/וֹ וְ/שָׁקַל֙ אֶת שְׂעַ֣ר רֹאשׁ֔/וֹ מָאתַ֥יִם שְׁקָלִ֖ים בְּ/אֶ֥בֶן הַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 11:14 — Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
- 2Sam 18:9 — 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
- 2Sam 18:9 — 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
- Ezek 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.