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.
Ver. 26. And when he polled his head.] He had a pride in his hair, and might well have feared some such fearful disease as is the Plica Polonica. The Romans abhorred those that wore long hair. Our Henry I repressed that vanity, though a gaiety of no charge, as undecent; and all other dissoluteness. a
He weighed the hair of his head.] It was not worth so much, as some sense it, but it weighed above three pounds, at sixteen ounces to the pound, when yearly polled.
a Dan., Hist.