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# קְרָעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7168

**torn piece** — 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

torn piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7168/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.21/#tree)

כִּי־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭זוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝קְרָעִ֗ים תַּלְבִּ֥ישׁ נוּמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.drunkard and a.glutton he.will.become.impoverished and rags it.will.clothe.\[him\] drowsiness

*JPS 1917:* For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

[1 Kings 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.30/#tree)

וַיִּתְפֹּ֣שׂ אֲחִיָּ֔ה בַּשַּׂלְמָ֥ה הַחֲדָשָׁ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֑יו וַיִּ֨קְרָעֶ֔הָ שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָׂ֖ר קְרָעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.seized Ahijah (in) the cloak (the) new which \[was\].on him and he tore.it two.plus ten pieces

*JPS 1917:* And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7168/): 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).