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# קׇרְחִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7145

**Korahite** — used 8 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

Korahite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרְחִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of קֹרַח 2; always c. art.; 1 Ch 9:31; as subst. coll. Ex 6:24 Nu 26:58; pl. הַקָּרְחִים 1 Ch 9:19; 12:7 (van d. H. v 6), 26:1; בְּנֵי הַקָּרְחִי v 19; בְּנֵי הַקָּרְחִים 2 Ch 20:19.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 12:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.7/#tree)

אֶלְקָנָ֡ה וְ֠יִשִּׁיָּהוּ וַעֲזַרְאֵ֧ל וְיוֹעֶ֛זֶר וְיָשָׁבְעָ֖ם הַקָּרְחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam the Korahites

*JPS 1917:* Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

[Exodus 6:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.24/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י קֹ֔רַח אַסִּ֥יר וְאֶלְקָנָ֖ה וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַקָּרְחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Korah \[were\].Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph these \[were\].the.clans of the.Korahite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7145.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/): 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).