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# כְּרִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3747

**Cherith** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Cherith [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּרִית²: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. the brook where Elijah was hidden 1 K 17:3, 5, identif. dub.; acc. RobBR ii. p. 288 Wady el-Kelt, near Jericho; acc. Buhl Handw. 12 Wady ʿAjlun, E. of Jordan, yet v. BuhlG. 121.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kerith (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 17:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.3/#tree)

לֵ֣ךְ מִזֶּ֔ה וּפָנִ֥יתָ לְּךָ֖ קֵ֑דְמָה וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* go from here and you.will.turn (for yourself eastward and you.will.hide.yourself at the.wadi of.Kerith which \[is\].on the.face of the.Jordan

*JPS 1917:* 'Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

[1 Kings 17:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.5/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went and he.did according to.the.word of.Yahweh and he.went and he.dwelt at the.wadi of.Kerith which \[is\].on the.face of the.Jordan

*JPS 1917:* So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3747.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/): 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).