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# קָרַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7160

**shoot out horns** — used 4 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

shoot out horns [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7160/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרַן: vb. denom. send out rays Hiph.denom. horns [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7160/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. of קֶרֶן 5, send out rays;—Pf. 3 ms. קָרַן עוֹר פָּנָיו Ex 34:29, 30, 35 (P). Hiph.denom. of קֶרֶן 1 a, display (grow) horns (be fully developed), Pt. פָּר מַקְרִן מַפְרִים ψ 69:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it shone (3); having horns (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.32/#tree)

וְתִיטַ֣ב לַֽ֭יהוָה מִשּׁ֥וֹר פָּ֗ר מַקְרִ֥ן מַפְרִֽיס׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.good to Yahweh more than.an.ox a.young.bull having.horns having.hooves

*JPS 1917:* And it shall please the LORD better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

[Exodus 34:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.30/#tree)

וַיַּ֨רְא אַהֲרֹ֜ן וְכָל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֥ה קָרַ֖ן ע֣וֹר פָּנָ֑יו וַיִּֽירְא֖וּ מִגֶּ֥שֶׁת אֵלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw Aaron and all the.people of.Israel (et) Moses and there! it.shone the.skin his.face his and they.were.afraid from drawing.near to him

*JPS 1917:* And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7160.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7160/): 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).