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קֵרֵחַ

qêrêach · H7142 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. bald

    State in which a human being has no hair on (part of) his scalp

    Examples

    Leviticus 13:40 “Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is only bald; he is clean.

    2 Kings 2:23 Now he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the road, some young boys came out from the city and ridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

How it’s used In 1 role

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the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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The word means bald or bald-headed, directly illustrated by the law that a man who loses the hair of his head "is only bald" and remains clean (Leviticus 13:40) and the boys who mocked Elisha, crying "go up, you baldhead" (2 Kings 2:23).
Word family 5 words

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

קָרַח qârach · H7139 · to create bald spots, to shave · 5×קׇרְחָה qorchâh · H7144 · bald spot · 11×קֶרַח qerach · H7140 · cold, ice · 7×קָרַחַת qârachath · H7146 · bald head, inner side · 4×קֵרֵחַqêrêach · H7142
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7142. qereach קֵרֵחַ adjective bald; — Lev 13:40 (distinct from גִּבֵּחַ Lev 13:41);…
H7142. qereach
קֵרֵחַ adjective bald; — Lev 13:40 (distinct from גִּבֵּחַ Lev 13:41);
noun masculine 2Ki 2:23 (twice in verse).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Bald2 occurrences

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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