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# הַכָּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1971

**look** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

look [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1971/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הַכָּרָה: n.f. look expression [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1971/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. look (or expression?);—cstr. הַכָּרַת פְּנֵיהֶם Is 3:9 a look at their face witnesses against them (𝔙 CheComm. al.), or the expression of their face (GesComm. De Gu SS, cf. Kit-Di), \> their regarding of persons 𝔖 𝔗 Thes Hi Du CheHpt. (v. against this Kit-Di); Ew Di the impudence of their face (√ הכר), but this very dub.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the expression (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.9/#tree)

הַכָּרַ֤ת פְּנֵיהֶם֙ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם כִּסְדֹ֥ם הִגִּ֖ידוּ לֹ֣א כִחֵ֑דוּ א֣וֹי לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם כִּֽי־גָמְל֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.expression their.faces their it.has.testified against them and sin their like Sodom they.have.declared not they.have.hidden.\[it\] woe! to self their (dm) they.have.done to themselves harm

*JPS 1917:* The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have wrought evil unto themselves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1971.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1971/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).