קָרַע
qâraʻ · kaw-rah'
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- 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)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest › to see and know
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָרַע 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
63 occurrences · 63 OT · 0 NT · 47 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- rent13 · 28%
- and rent5 · 11%
- that he rent5 · 11%
- hath rent2 · 4%
- it, that he rent2 · 4%
- and he rent1 · 2%
- then they rent1 · 2%
- that it be not rent1 · 2%
- that it should not rend1 · 2%
- of it; then he shall rend1 · 2%
- her, that he rent1 · 2%
- and it rent1 · 2%
- that were with him, rend1 · 2%
- and tare1 · 2%
- thee, i will surely1 · 2%
- rend1 · 2%
- sake: but i will rend1 · 2%
- i will not rend away1 · 2%
- that was on him, and rent1 · 2%
- behold, i will rend1 · 2%
- shall be rent1 · 2%
- also was rent1 · 2%
- away1 · 2%
- had rent1 · 2%
- wherefore hast thou rent1 · 2%
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.