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# קֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7176

**town** — used 5 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

town [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7176/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֶ֫רֶת: n.f. town, city [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7176/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. town, city (late poet.) (cf. Ph. קרת הדשת n.pr.loc. in Cyprus, also = Carthage, and perhaps Cirta, Tigranocerta; cp. Thes);—always קָ֑רֶת;—of Job’s city, Jb 29:7; indef. Pr 8:3; 9:3, 14; city as a corporate body of men 11:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of \[the\] town (3); \[the\] town (1); a town (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.3/#tree)

שָֽׁלְחָ֣ה נַעֲרֹתֶ֣יהָ תִקְרָ֑א עַל־גַּ֝פֵּ֗י מְרֹ֣מֵי קָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* she.has.sent.out servants her.female she.calls.out on \[the\].elevations of.\[the\].heights of.\[the\].town

*JPS 1917:* She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:

[Proverbs 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.3/#tree)

לְיַד־שְׁעָרִ֥ים לְפִי־קָ֑רֶת מְב֖וֹא פְתָחִ֣ים תָּרֹֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] side of.\[the\].gates to.\[the\] opening of.\[the\].town \[the\].entrance of.\[the\].doorways she.cries.aloud

*JPS 1917:* Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7176.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7176/): 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).