כָּרַע
kâraʻ · kaw-rah'
to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate
- to bend the knee
- by implication, to sink, to prostrate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, [idiom] very.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › to see and know
The open hand that covers of the head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כָּרַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- he bowed3 · 9%
- bowed3 · 9%
- shall bow3 · 9%
- bow down2 · 6%
- he stooped down1 · 3%
- he couched1 · 3%
- by himself; likewise every one that boweth down1 · 3%
- bowed down1 · 3%
- thou hast brought1 · 3%
- me very1 · 3%
- low1 · 3%
- she bowed1 · 3%
- against me hast thou subdued1 · 3%
- from kneeling1 · 3%
- which have not bowed1 · 3%
- and fell1 · 3%
- and he sunk down1 · 3%
- they bowed1 · 3%
- with him bowed1 · 3%
- i fell1 · 3%
- the feeble1 · 3%
- they bow1 · 3%
- cast him down1 · 3%
- thou hast subdued1 · 3%
- they are brought down1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.