KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To cut the hair from the head. 2. A head counted as a person.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 3:47
Complete exact-word concordance
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Thou shalt euen take fiue shekels a piece, by the polle, after the shekel of the Sanctuary shalt thou take them; the shekel is twenty gerahs.
1611 marginal noteExod. 30.13. leuit. 27.25. chap. 18.16. ezek. 45.12.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Neither shall they shaue their heads, nor suffer their lockes to grow long, they shall only polle their heads.
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Make thee bald, and polle thee for thy delicate children, enlarge thy baldnesse as the Eagle, for they are gone into captiuitie from thee.
1611 marginal noteIsai.22.12
Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
Ezekiel directly places poll between shaving heads and long locks, and Micah joins it to making bald; Numbers says shekels apiece by the poll. Both numbered senses are textually explicit.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
to cut the hair of the head.
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.
