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# קָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7135

**coolness** — used 5 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

coolness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרָה⁴: n.f. Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. בְּיוֹם ק׳ Na 3:17 a day of coldness, cold day, so Pr 25:20; ק׳ alone, cold of night Jb 24:7; in gen., due to winds 37:9 (מִמְּזָרִים v. זרה Pi.; yet Voigt Bu, attractively, מִמְּזָוִים (cf. ψ 144:13) out of storehouses \[‖ חֶדֶר\]); לִפְנֵי קָרָתוֹ מִי יַעֲמֹד ψ 147:17, + pl. Zc 14:6 (read וְקָרוֹת, v. יָקָר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: coldness (3); of coldness (2).

## In the verses

[Job 37:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.9/#tree)

מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from the chamber it.comes a.storm-wind and from the.scattering.winds coldness

*JPS 1917:* Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.

[Job 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.7/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם יָ֭לִינוּ מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת בַּקָּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* naked they.spend.the.night from not clothing and there.\[is\].not covering in the coldness

*JPS 1917:* They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7135.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/): 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).