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# קֹרֵא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7124

**partridge** — 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

partridge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7124/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֹרֵא: n.m. partridge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7124/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 17:11 usually partridge (from calling; v. Gray in FFP 123 PostHastings DB s.v. TristrMoab 129, 144 f.; otherwise BoHieroz. Pt. 2, 81 ff.; ed. Rosenm. vol. ii. 632 ff.);—1 S 26:20; Je 17:11, cf. עֵין הַקּוֹ׳ Ju 15:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a partridge (1); partridge (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 17:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.11/#tree)

קֹרֵ֤א דָגַר֙ וְלֹ֣א יָלָ֔ד עֹ֥שֶׂה עֹ֖שֶׁר וְלֹ֣א בְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּחֲצִ֤י יָמָיו֙ יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ וּבְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֥ה נָבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* a.partridge \[which\].it.gathers.a.brood and not it.has.laid \[one.who\].makes wealth and not with justice in the.middle his.days his it will.leave.him and at end his he.will.be a.fool

*JPS 1917:* As the partridge that broodeth over young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end he shall be a fool.

[1 Samuel 26:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.20/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֗ה אַל־יִפֹּ֤ל דָּֽמִי֙ אַ֔רְצָה מִנֶּ֖גֶד פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כִּֽי־יָצָ֞א מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לְבַקֵּשׁ֙ אֶת־פַּרְעֹ֣שׁ אֶחָ֔ד כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יִרְדֹּ֥ף הַקֹּרֵ֖א בֶּהָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and now not let.it.fall blood my ground to.\[the\] from before the.presence of.Yahweh (dm) he.has.come.out the.king of.Israel to seek (et) a.flea one just as someone.pursues the partridge in the mountains

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7124.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7124/): 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).