Word

כְּרַז

kᵉraz · H3745 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to proclaim

    Action by which humans make proclamations on behalf of a king or leader

    Examples

    Daniel 5:29 Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
קָרָא qârâʼ · H7121 · to cry out, to read, to recite
קָרָא is the common Hebrew verb for calling out or proclaiming, overlapping with כְּרַז in the sense of making a public announcement, though קָרָא has broader usage including simply calling or summoning
נָגַד nâgad · H5046 · to tell, to inform, to report
נָגַד denotes declaring or announcing information publicly, similar to כְּרַז in the sense of making something known through proclamation, though נָגַד is more general and less specifically tied to official heralding
In the other Testament 1 word
κηρύσσω kērýssō · G2784 · to announce, to proclaim, to tell
κηρύσσω is the standard Greek verb for making a public proclamation or announcement, functioning as the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic כְּרַז in contexts of official heralding or declaration
Semantic domains 1 entry
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Daniel 5:29 recounts that Belshazzar “issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.”
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3745. keraz [כְּרַז] verb denominative Haph`el make proclamation (possibly directly…
H3745. keraz
[כְּרַז] verb denominative Haph`el make proclamation (possibly directly dependent on κηρύξ (D§ 37, p. 146 (2nd ed. 183) Kl.c. M67*), but even then formed as denominative; compare כְּרַו ᵑ7, Late Hebrew כָּרַז, Syriac Aph`el, Ethpe`el, so Christian-Palestinian Aramaic, SchwIdioticon 46 SchulthLex.97); — Perfect3masculine plural רִ֫צוּ הַכְּ Dan 5:29, with עַיל person concerning.
כָּרְסֵא see כסא.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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