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# קֹרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7141

**Korah** — used 37 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

Korah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֹ֫רַח: n.pr.m. (baldness?) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Κορε (baldness?);— Edomite name: Gn 36:5, 14, 18; 1 Ch 1:35. Gn 36:16 (not Sam.; prob. gloss from v 18 Di Kau Ball al.; Holz hesitates). Levite, rebel ag. Moses, Nu 16:1 + 10 times 16, 17, 26:9, 10; 27:3; in geneal. lists Ex 6:21, 24 1 Ch 6:7, 22; בֶּן־ק׳ 9:19; בְּנֵי־ק׳ Nu 26:11; especially לִבְנֵי־ק׳ as company of ψ-collectors (or singers), in titles: ψ 42:1; 44:1; 45:1; 46:1; 47:1; 48:1; 49:1; 85:1; 87:1; 88:1. a ‘son’ of Hebron, i.e. Judahite clan 1 Ch 2:43 Κορεε, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 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: of Korah (20); Korah (14); \[were\] Korah (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.11/#tree)

וּבְנֵי־קֹ֖רַח לֹא־מֵֽתוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Korah not they.died

*JPS 1917:* Notwithstanding the sons of Korah died not.

[Psalms 48:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.1/#tree)

שִׁ֥יר מִ֝זְמוֹר לִבְנֵי־קֹֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* a.song a.psalm of the.sons of.Korah

*JPS 1917:* A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7141.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7141/): 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).