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# קָרֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7143

**Careah** — used 14 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

Careah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרֵחַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Judah (bald one);—2 K 25:23, Καρηθ, 𝔊L Καρηε; Je 40:8 + 12 times Je, Καρηε.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kareah (14).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 40:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.13/#tree)

וְיֽוֹחָנָן֙ בֶּן־קָרֵ֔חַ וְכָל־שָׂרֵ֥י הַחֲיָלִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֑ה בָּ֥אוּ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָ֖הוּ הַמִּצְפָּֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and Johanan the.son of.Kareah and all the.commanders of the.armies which \[were\].in the.open country they.came to Gedaliah to (the) Mizpah

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

[Jeremiah 41:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.14/#tree)

וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־שָׁבָ֥ה יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל מִן־הַמִּצְפָּ֑ה וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ וַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ אֶל־יֽוֹחָנָ֖ן בֶּן־קָרֵֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and they.turned.round all the people which he.had.taken.captive Ishmael from (the) Mizpah and they.turned.back and they.went to Johanan the.son of.Kareah

*JPS 1917:* So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7143/): 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).