Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7140
קֶרַח
qerachkeh'-rakh
ice
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7140is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7140
ice (as if bald, i.e. smooth); hence, hail; by resemblance, rock crystal
The King James renders it: crystal, frost, ice.
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
qerach is rendered "ice". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31:40וְקֶ֣רַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ice2
- and frost1
- and to the frost1
- ice his1
- the frost1
- the ice1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| קֶרַע | qera | rags | Uses4 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- קָ֑רַח2
- הַקֶּ֣רַח1
- הַקָּ֑רַח1
- וְלַקֶּ֥רַח1
- וְקֶ֣רַח1
- קַֽרְח֣וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Genesis
one use
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- וְקֶ֣רַחvekerachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and frost
Job
three uses
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
- קָ֑רַחkarachnoun · masculine singulartagged: ice
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- קָ֑רַחkarachnoun · masculine singulartagged: ice
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
- הַקָּ֑רַחhakarachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the ice
Psalms
one use
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
- קַֽרְח֣וֹkarchonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ice his
Jeremiah
one use
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.
- וְלַקֶּ֥רַחvelakerachconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the frost
Ezekiel
one use
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
- הַקֶּ֣רַחhakerachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the frost
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.