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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #7176 - קֶרֶת

Transliteration

qereth

Phonetics

keh'-reth

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H7136) in the sense of building

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TWOT

2068h

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) city, town

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2487 ‑ ἴχνος (ikh'‑nos); 4628 ‑ σκέλος (skel'‑os);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

NAS (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

HCS (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

BSB (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

ESV (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

WEB (5)

Job 1

Proverbs 4

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1434) r q (קר QR) AC: Call CO: Meeting AB: Event: The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at the horizon and the gathering of the light, the r is a picture of the head of a man. Combined these mean "gather the men". The meeting or bringing together of people or objects by arrangement, accident or purchase. (eng: occur; call - with the exchange of the l and r)

A) r q (קר QR) AC: ? CO: Cold AB: ?: Men often came together during the cool of the evening to discuss the news of the camp.

N^m) r q (קר QR) - Cold: [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (3): cold - Strongs: H7119 (קַר)

N^f1) e r q (קרה QRH) - Cold: A cold wind or cold weather. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (5): cold - Strongs: H7135 (קָרָה)

N^f2) t r q (קרת QRT) - City: A place of meeting within the city, either at the entrance or a high place. KJV (5): city - Strongs: H7176 (קֶרֶת)

f^m) i r q (קרי QRY) - Contrary: An opposition. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (7): contrary - Strongs: H7147 (קְרִי)

k^f1) e r q m (מקרה MQRH) - Cool: A cool place to escape the heat. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (2): summer - Strongs: H4747 (מְקֵרָה)

E) a r q (קרא QRA) AC: Call CO: Meeting AB: ?: A calling together for assembly.

V) a r q (קרא QRA) - I. Call:To call or call out, to call a name or give a name. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Meet:To come together to meet. Also a chance encounter. III. Read:To read a scroll in the presence of those called to a meeting. KJV (883): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Pual) call, cry, read, proclaim, name, guest, invite, gave, renown, bidden, preach, read, cry, call, befall, encounter, chance, happen, met, fall, meet, against, come, help, seek - Strongs: H7121 (קָרָא), H7122 (קָרָא), H7123 (קְרָא), H7125 (קִרְאָה)

b^m) a i r q (קריא QRYA) - Selected: Individuals called out for a special purpose. KJV (3): famous - Strongs: H7148 (קָרִיא)

b^f1) e a i r q (קריאה QRYAH) - Selected: KJV (1): preaching - Strongs: H7150 (קְרִיאָה)

g^m) a r f q (קורא QWRA) - Partridge: From its distinctive call. KJV (2): partridge - Strongs: H7124 (קֹרֵא)

h^m) a r q m (מקרא MQRA) - I. Meeting:A calling together to meet. II. Reading:The reading from a scroll at a called meeting. KJV (23): convocation, assembly, calling, reading - Strongs: H4744 (מִקְרָא)

H) e r q (קרה QRH) AC: Meet CO: Event AB: ?: The meeting or bringing together of people or objects by arrangement, accident or purchase.

V) e r q (קרה QRH) - Meet: To go to meet another or a chance encounter. KJV (27): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) happen, meet, beam, befall, brought - Strongs: H7136 (קָרָה)

N^m) e r q (קרה QRH) - Event: KJV (1): chance - Strongs: H7137 (קָרֶה)

f^f1) e i r q (קריה QRYH) - City: A meeting place. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (40): city - Strongs: H7149 (קִרְיָה), H7151 (קִרְיָה)

h^m) e r q m (מקרה MQRH) - Event: KJV (10): befall, event, hap, chance, happen - Strongs: H4745 (מִקְרֶה)

k^m) e r q m (מקרה MQRH) - Hall: A meeting place. KJV (1): building - Strongs: H4746 (מְקָרֶה)

J) r f q (קור QWR) AC: ? CO: Sit AB: ?

N^m ) r f q (קור QWR) - I. Web:The web of a spider as a sitting place. II. Cold:[Unknown connection to root] KJV (3): cold, web - Strongs: H7120 (קֹר), H6980 (קוּר)

N^f1) e r f q (קורה QWRH) - Log: Used to sit on when meeting. Also used as beams in the roof of a house. KJV (5): roof, beam - Strongs: H6982 (קֹרָה)

L) r q i (יקר YQR) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Precious: Something of value. [Unknown connection to root;]

V) r q i (יקר YQR) - Precious: To be considered of value. KJV (11): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) precious, prized, set, withdraw - Strongs: H3365 (יָקַר)

N^m) r q i (יקר YQR) - I. Precious:Something of value. [Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Value:Something counted as valuable. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (60): precious, costly, excellent, brightness, clear, fat, reputation, honourable, glory, honour, precious, price - Strongs: H3366 (יְקָר), H3367 (יְקָר), H3368 (יָקָר)

b^m) r i q i (יקיר YQYR) - Precious: Something of value. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (3): dear - Strongs: H3357 (יַקִּיר), H3358 (יַקִּיר)

M) r i q (קיר QYR) AC: ? CO: Wall AB: ?

N^m ) r i q (קיר QYR) - Wall: The place of the city where elders meet. KJV (74): wall, side, mason, town - Strongs: H7023 (קִירָה)

Adopted Roots:

A2730 H r q (Shave, Bald)
A2731 M r q (Cover)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[קֶ֫רֶת] noun feminine town, city (late poetry) (compare Phoenician קרת חדשת proper name, of a location in Cyprus, also = Carthage, and perhaps Cirta, Tigranocerta; compare Thes); — always קָ֑רֶת; — of Job's city, Job 29:7; indefinite Proverbs 8:3; Proverbs 9:3,14; city as a corporate body of men Proverbs 11:11.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

קֶרֶת (from the root קָרָה, of the form כֶּסֶת, from כָּסָה), fem. a poet. word, i.q. קִרְיָה a city, but of less frequent occurrence, Job 29:7; Proverbs 8:3, 9:3 11:11. Ch. קַרְתָּא id. The same word is found in Persic and Syriac names of cities, as Cirta, Tigranocerta, also on the Phœnicio-Sicilian coins struck at Panorruns [Palermo], which have on the face the inscription מחנת (מַחֲנֹת the camp, prob. a domestic name of the city), on the back קרת חדשת (קֶרֶת חֲדֶשֶׁת New City), prob. Carthage, to which Panormus was subject; see Bayer, on Sallust. p. 347; Mionnet, Descr. des Médailles, plate 20; [also Monumm. Phœn.]

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List of Word Forms

קָ֑רֶת קָֽרֶת׃ קרת קרת׃ Karet qā·reṯ qāreṯ