Senses
1. make bald (mourning rite) — To make bald or shave the head as an act of mourning or lamentation for the dead, a widespread ancient Near Eastern mourning rite. Encompasses all stems (Qal, Hiphil, Hofal, Niphal) with the shared semantic core of creating baldness. Arabic صَلِعَ/يَحْلِقُوا (to become bald/to shave), Korean 대머리를 밀다 (to shave bald), Spanish rasurar/hacer calvicie, Hindi गंजा करना (to make bald). Attested in Lev 21:5 (priestly prohibition), Jer 16:6 (Niphal, mourning custom), Ezek 27:31 (Hiphil, mariners mourning Tyre), Ezek 29:18 (Hofal passive, made bald by labor), and Mic 1:16 (imperative, Zion told to shave in grief over exiled children). The Hofal participle in Ezek 29:18 describes physical baldness from wearing helmets during siege, while all other occurrences relate to deliberate ritual shaving. 6×
AR["(يَحْلِقُوا)","[قري]","اجْعَلِي-قَرْعَاءَ","صَلِعَ","وَيُقَرِّعُونَ","يَحْلِقُونَ"]·ben["আর-টাক-করবে","কামাও","কামানো-হবে","টাক","টাক-করবে"]·DE["[sie-soll-machen-bald]","[והקריחו]","[יקרח]","[מקרח]","[קרחי]"]·EN["(they-shall-make-bald)","Shave","[they-shall-make-bald]","and-they-shall-make-bald","made-bald","they-will-make-bald"]·FR["(ils-devra-faire-bald)","[ils-devra-faire-bald]","[יקרח]","et-raser","raser"]·heb["(יקרחו)","[יקרחה]","ו-הקריחו","ייקרח","מוקרח","קרחי"]·HI["और-मूंडेंगे-वे","गंजा-करो","गंजा-हुआ","गंजे-बनाएं","मुड़ाएंगे"]·ID["Cukurlah-kepalamu","Dan-mereka-akan-menggundul","[bentuk-lama]","digundul,","mencukur-gundul","mereka-membuat-botak"]·IT["[essi-dovra-fare-bald]","[והקריחו]","[יקרח]","[מקרח]","[קרחי]"]·jav["(sami-nggundul)","Lan-sami-mbotaki","[sami-gundul]","botak","gundhulna","nggundul-sirah"]·KO["그리고-대머리를-밀-것이다-그들이","대머리가-되었다","대머리를-믰-것이다-그들은","대머리를-미는","머리를-밀지","밀어라"]·PT["(raparão)","E-raparão","Faze-calva","[raparão]","calva","se-raparão"]·RU["[ктив]","Обрейся","брейте","будут-бриться","и-обреют","облысела"]·ES["Hazte-calva","Q","Y-se-rasurarán","fue-rapada","harán-calvicie","se-raparán"]·SW["Na-watanyoa","[watanyoa]","jizolee-nywele","kimenyolewa","nyolewa","watanyoa"]·TR["Tras-ol","[traş-edecekler]","keldi","traş-edecekler","tıraş-olunacak","ve-tıraş-edecekler"]·urd["اور-گنجے-کریں-گے","سر-مونڈیں-گے","منڈوا","گنجا-ہوا","گنجے-کریں-گے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. קָרַח vb. make bald, or a baldness, usually (by mourners) for the dead, cf. RSSem. i. 306, 2nd ed. 324 (Arabic parallels) (NH id. Hiph. shew baldness; Arabic قَرَحَ wound, make sores, قُرْحَةٌ whiteness in face of horse (but قَرَعَ be bald, أَقْرَعُ bald); Ethiopic ቀርሐ make bald (rare); Aramaic קְרַח, ܩܪܰܚ, chiefly deriv. (and der. meanings); cf. Sin. n.pr.m. קרחה, קרחו; MI3, 21, 24, 25…