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# קָרַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7164

**bend down** — used 2 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

bend down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרַס: vb. bend down, stoop, crouch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bend down, stoop, crouch (intrans.) (cf. perhaps Arabic قُرْصٌ disc, round cake; cp. NH קַרְסוֹל, קַרְצוֹל, 𝔗 קַרְסוּלָּא, קַרְצוּלָא all ankle);— Pf. 3 pl. קָרְסוּ Is 46:2; Pt. קֹרֵס v 1 (both + כָּרַע); of vanquished gods of Babylon.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] stooping low (1); they have stooped low (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 46:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.2/#tree)

קָרְס֤וּ כָֽרְעוּ֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו לֹ֥א יָכְל֖וּ מַלֵּ֣ט מַשָּׂ֑א וְנַפְשָׁ֖ם בַּשְּׁבִ֥י הָלָֽכָה׃ס

*Word for word:* they.have.stooped.low they.have.bowed.down together not they.have.been.able to.rescue a.burden and self their in (the) captivity it.has.gone

*JPS 1917:* They stoop, they bow down together, they could not deliver the burden; and themselves are gone into captivity.

[Isaiah 46:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.1/#tree)

כָּרַ֥ע בֵּל֙ קֹרֵ֣ס נְב֔וֹ הָיוּ֙ עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֔ם לַחַיָּ֖ה וְלַבְּהֵמָ֑ה נְשֻׂאֹתֵיכֶ֣ם עֲמוּס֔וֹת מַשָּׂ֖א לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.bowed.down Bel \[is\].stooping.low Nebo they.belong idols their to the animal\[s\] and to the cattle burdens your \[are\].carried a.load for a.weary.\[animal\]

*JPS 1917:* Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7164.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/): 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).