Numbers 1:2
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
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1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
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גֻּלְגֹּלֶת
gulgôleth · gul-go'-leth
6 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a skull (as round); by implication, a head (in enumeration of persons)
Strong's KJV usage: head, every man, poll, skull.
Strong's first: Numbers 1:2Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 23:24
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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
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These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
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poll
POLL, noun
1. The head of a person, or the back part of the head, and in composition, applied to the head of a beast, as in poll-evil.
2. A register of heads, that is, of persons.
3. The entry of the names of electors who vote for civil officers. Hence,
4. An election of civil officers, or the place of election.
Our citizens say, at the opening or close of the poll that is, at the beginning of the register of voters and reception of votes, or the close of the same. They say also, we are going to the poll; many voters appeared at the poll
5. A fish called a chub or chevin. [See Pollard.]
POLL, verb transitive To lop the tops of trees.
1. To clip; to cut off the ends; to cut off hair or wool; to shear. The phrases, to poll the hair, and to poll the head, have been used. The latter is used in 2 Samuel 14:26. To poll a deed, is a phrase still used in law language.
2. To mow; to crop. [Not used.]
3. To peel; to strip; to plunder.
4. To take a list or register of persons; to enter names in a list.
5. To enter one's name in a list or register.
6. To insert into a number as a voter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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