Qerach קֶ֫רַח
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| קֶ֫רַח | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | qerach |
| Strong's number | H7140 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | ice |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (3) |
Qerach (Hebrew קֶ֫רַח, Strong's H7140) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “ice”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) frost, ice, ice crystal
1a) frost (of night)
1b) ice
1a) frost (of night)
1b) ice
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | frost (3), ice (3), crystal (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | frost (2), ice (2), does the ice (1), his hail (1), like crystal (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Qerach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Job
- Job 6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
- Job 37:10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Psalms
- Psalm 147:17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 36:30Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
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).