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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