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# קוֹרֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6981

**Kore** — used 3 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

Kore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6981/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוֹרֵא²: pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6981/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. Κωρηβ, Κωρη, etc.; Levites: 1 Ch 9:19; 26:1 (קֹרֵא). 2 Ch 31:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kore (2); Kore (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 26:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.1/#tree)

לְמַחְלְק֖וֹת לְשֹׁעֲרִ֑ים לַקָּרְחִ֕ים מְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־קֹרֵ֖א מִן־בְּנֵ֥י אָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* to divisions of gatekeepers of the Korahites Meshelemiah the.son of.Kore one.of the.sons of.Asaph

*JPS 1917:* For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

[2 Chronicles 31:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.31.14/#tree)

וְקוֹרֵ֨א בֶן־יִמְנָ֤ה הַלֵּוִי֙ הַשּׁוֹעֵ֣ר לַמִּזְרָ֔חָה עַ֖ל נִדְב֣וֹת הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים לָתֵת֙ תְּרוּמַ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה וְקָדְשֵׁ֖י הַקֳּדָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and Kore the.son of.Imnah the Levite the gatekeeper to the east \[was\].over the.freewill.offerings of.(the) God to distribute the.contribution of.Yahweh and the.holy.things of the.holy.things

*JPS 1917:* And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of the LORD, and the most holy things.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6981.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6981/): 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).