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Leviticus 19

Lev. 19:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yep shall not round
naqaph (Hebrew #5362)
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
KJV usage: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Pronounce: naw-kaf'
Origin: a primitive root
the corners
pe'ah (Hebrew #6285)
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
KJV usage: corner, end, quarter, side.
Pronounce: pay-aw'
Origin: feminine of 6311
of your heads
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
, neither shalt thou mar
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
the corners
pe'ah (Hebrew #6285)
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
KJV usage: corner, end, quarter, side.
Pronounce: pay-aw'
Origin: feminine of 6311
of thy beard
zaqan (Hebrew #2206)
the beard (as indicating age)
KJV usage: beard.
Pronounce: zaw-kawn'
Origin: from 2204
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Lev. 21:5• 5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. (Lev. 21:5)

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Cross References

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Lev. 21:5• 5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. (Lev. 21:5)
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Isa. 15:2• 2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. (Isa. 15:2)
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Jer. 16:6• 6Both the great and the 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: (Jer. 16:6)
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Jer. 48:37• 37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. (Jer. 48:37)
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Ezek. 7:18• 18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. (Ezek. 7:18)
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Ezek. 44:20• 20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. (Ezek. 44:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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—Ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.