Limitless Word
מָרַטmâraṭ/maw-rat'/
HebrewH48039 occurrences (KJV)

to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen

KJV renders it: bright, furbish, (have his) hair (be) fallen off, peeled, pluck off (hair).

Where it appears

  • Lev 13:40“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
  • Lev 13:41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
  • Ezra 9:3When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
  • Neh 13:25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
  • Isa 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
  • Ezek 21:9“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.
  • Ezek 21:11It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished, to give it into the hand of the killer.”’
  • Ezek 21:28“You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
  • Ezek 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.