Qorah קוֹרָה
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| קוֹרָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | qorah |
| Strong's number | H6982 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | beam |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | 2 Kings (2) |
Qorah (Hebrew קוֹרָה, Strong's H6982) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “beam”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
rafter, beam
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | beam (2), beams (2), roof (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | beams (2), my roof (1), log (1), tree (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Qorah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 19:8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
- 2 Kings 6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
Song of Solomon
- Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).