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# קׇדְקֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6936

**head** — used 11 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

head [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6936/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָדְקֹד: head, crown of head [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6936/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] head, crown of head;—ק׳ abs. Dt 33:20; Je 2:16, cstr. Is 3:17 +; sf. קָדְקֳדוֹ 2 S 14:25; Jb 2:7; קָדְקֳדֶ֑ךָ Dt 28:25;—especially poet. Gn 49:26 = Dt 33:16, ψ 7:17, ק׳ שֵׂעָר 68:22 hairy crown or scalp (all ‖ רֹאשׁ), Is 3:17; Je 2:16; 48:45 (‖ פֵּאָה), so read also Nu 24:17 for וְקַרְקַר (‖ id.), v. Ew Di Pat al., Dt 33:20; in prose only מִכַּף רֶגֶל וְעַד־ק׳ Dt 28:35; 2 S 14:25; Jb 2:7.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of his head (3); the crown of the head (3); \[the\] crown of head (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/#tree)

גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס יִרְע֖וּךְ קָדְקֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* also the.people of.Memphis and Tahpanhes they will.graze.you crown.of.head

*JPS 1917:* The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head.

[Psalms 68:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.22/#tree)

אַךְ־אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִמְחַץ֮ רֹ֤אשׁ אֹ֫יְבָ֥יו קָדְקֹ֥ד שֵׂעָ֑ר מִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ךְ בַּאֲשָׁמָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* surely God he.will.smash the.head his.enemies his \[the\].crown.of.head of.hair \[one.who\].goes.about in guilt(s) his

*JPS 1917:* Surely God will smite through the head of His enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth about in his guiltiness.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6936/): 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).