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# קָרַר

Biblical Hebrew

**tear down** — 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

tear down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרַר²: vb. tear down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear down (?) (NH קִרְקֵר. tear down wall);—only Pt. מְקַרְקַר קִר Is 22:5 usually (men are) tearing down wall(s), but v i. קִיר 3 ad fin.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 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: breaking down (1); it has kept cool (1); keeps cool (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

[Jeremiah 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.7/#tree)

כְּהָקִ֥יר בַּ֙יִר֙ מֵימֶ֔יהָ כֵּ֖ן הֵקֵ֣רָה רָעָתָ֑הּ חָמָ֣ס וָ֠שֹׁד יִשָּׁ֨מַע בָּ֧הּ עַל־פָּנַ֛י תָּמִ֖יד חֳלִ֥י וּמַכָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* as keeps.cool a.well water its so it.has.kept.cool evil its violence and havoc it.is.heard in it \[are\].on face my continually sickness and wound\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/): 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).