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# קֵרֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7142

**bald** — used 3 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

bald [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7142/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵרֵחַ: adj. bald n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7142/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. bald;—Lv 13:40 (distinct from גִּכֵּחַ v 41); n.m. 2 K 2:23(×2).

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 (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O bald \[man\] (2); \[is\] bald (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.40/#tree)

וְאִ֕ישׁ כִּ֥י יִמָּרֵ֖ט רֹאשׁ֑וֹ קֵרֵ֥חַ ה֖וּא טָה֥וֹר הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and anyone (dm) it.will.become.bare head his \[is\].bald he \[is\].pure he

*JPS 1917:* And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

[2 Kings 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.2.23/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַל מִשָּׁ֖ם בֵּֽית־אֵ֑לבֵּֽית־אֵ֑ל וְה֣וּא ׀ עֹלֶ֣ה בַדֶּ֗רֶךְ וּנְעָרִ֤ים קְטַנִּים֙ יָצְא֣וּ מִן־הָעִ֔יר וַיִּתְקַלְּסוּ־בוֹ֙ וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ ל֔וֹ עֲלֵ֥ה קֵרֵ֖חַ עֲלֵ֥ה קֵרֵֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up from there Bethel Bethel and he \[was\].going.up on the way and lads young they.came.out from the city and they.derided (in) him and they.said to him go.up O.bald.\[man\] go.up O.bald.\[man\]

*JPS 1917:* And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him: 'Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7142.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7142/): 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).