0 How much did Absalom's hair weigh?

How much did Absalom's hair weigh?


About 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds)

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. 2 Samuel 14:26

A shekel at the time would have had a mass of about 11.5 grams.)

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