Hebrew verb · H7139
קָרַח
qarachkaw-rakh'
to make bald
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qârach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7139is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7139
to depilate
The King James renders it: make (self) bald.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qarach is rendered "to make bald". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 21:5Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
Leviticus 21:5יִקְרְח֤וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they will make bald1
- anyone will make himself bald1
- made bald1
- make bald1
- they will make bald1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהִקְרִ֤יחוּ1
- יִקָּרֵ֖חַ1
- יִקְרְח֤וּ1
- מֻקְרָ֔ח1
- קָרְחִ֣י1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
- verb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singular1HVHsmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqv2fs
Leviticus
one use
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
- יִקְרְח֤וּyikrechahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will make bald
Jeremiah
one use
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
- יִקָּרֵ֖חַyikareachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone will make himself bald
Ezekiel
two uses
They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
- וְהִקְרִ֤יחוּvehikrichuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will make bald
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
- מֻקְרָ֔חmukrachverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: made bald
Micah
one use
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
- קָרְחִ֣יkarechiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: make bald
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.