2 Samuel 14:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ When he shaved his head #– #he shaved it at the end of every year because his hair got so heavy for him that he had to shave it off #– #he would weigh the hair from his head and it would be 2.5 kilograms  according to the royal standard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it; because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it;) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And when he cut the hair of his head, he weighed it–for at each year's end he cut it, because its weight was a burden to him–and it weighed 200 shekels by the king's weight.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

Common English Bible

²⁶ When he shaved his head—he had to shave his head at the end of each year because his hair was so heavy that he had to shave it—the weight of the hair from his head was two hundred shekels by the royal weight.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And when he shaved off his hair, for he shaved it off once a year, because his long hair was burdensome to him, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, by the public weights.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.

2 Samuel 14:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 23:16

Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels  of silver.

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in mid-air.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of beautifully styled hair,   baldness; instead of fine clothes, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.

Ezekiel 44:20

‘They may not shave their heads  or let their hair grow long,  but are to carefully trim their hair.

Leviticus 19:36

You are to have honest balances,  honest weights, an honest dry measure,  and an honest liquid measure;  , I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not even nature itself teach  you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace  to him,