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# קֶרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7140

**frost** — used 7 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

frost [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7140/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫רַח: n.m. frost, ice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7140/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 38:29 frost, ice;—abs. ק׳ Gn 31:40 +, קָ֑רַח Jb 6:16 +; sf. קַרְחוֹ ψ 147:17;— frost of night (opp. חֹרֶב of day), Gn 31:40 (E), Je 36:30. ice, Jb 6:16; 37:10; 38:29 (‖ כְּפֹר hoarfrost), מַשְׁלִיךְ ק׳ כְפִתִּים ψ 147:17 (Hup al. think of hail, but v. Bae; ‖ קָרָה cold, שֶׁלֶג, כְּפוֹר v 16); probably also כְּעֵין ק׳ Ez 1:22 (so Krae; most crystal, after 𝔊).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 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 (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ice (5); frost (2).

## In the verses

[Job 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.16/#tree)

הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים מִנִּי־קָ֑רַח עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ יִתְעַלֶּם־שָֽׁלֶג׃

*Word for word:* (the).\[which are\].dark from ice over them it.hides.itself snow

*JPS 1917:* Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself;

[Job 37:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.10/#tree)

מִנִּשְׁמַת־אֵ֥ל יִתֶּן־קָ֑רַח וְרֹ֖חַב מַ֣יִם בְּמוּצָֽק׃

*Word for word:* from the.breath of.God it.gives ice and.\[the\] breadth of.\[the\].waters \[is\].(in) constraint

*JPS 1917:* By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7140.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7140/): 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).