קָרַחַת
qârachath · H7146 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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bald head
A condition by which the scalp of someone's head is partly or entirely without hair
ExamplesLeviticus 13:42 “But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.
Leviticus 13:43 “Then the priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,
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inner side
Meaning unsure; possibly: a reference to that part of a piece of clothing that faces the inside, where the tufts have been smoothed out
ExamplesLeviticus 13:55 “After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even if the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the back or on the front of it.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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 1 word
- גַּבַּחַת gabbachath · H1372 · baldness of the forehead, outer side
- Both words denote specific types of baldness on the head, differing only in anatomical location (forehead versus crown or back).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Bald002001001007
- The word means a bald spot, directly illustrated by the priest examining a reddish-white infection "on his bald head or on his bald forehead" (Leviticus 13:42-43).
- Spatial Referents003002005
- The word can also denote a bare place on cloth or leather ("bareness on the back or on the front"), directly illustrated by the priest's examination of a garment for the mark's location (Leviticus 13:55).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7146. qarachath קָרַחַת noun feminine baldness of head; — absolute ׳ק Lev 13:42 a;…
קָרַחַת noun feminine baldness of head; — absolute ׳ק Lev 13:42 a; suffix קָרַחְתּוֺ Lev 13:42 +; — baldness of head (always opposed to גַּבַּחַת baldness of forehead), Lev 13:42 (twice in verse); Lev 13:43, Lev 13:55.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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