Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7144
קׇרְחָה
qorchahkor-khaw'
bald spot
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qorchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7144is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7144
baldness
The King James renders it: bald(-ness), [idiom] utterly.
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
qorchah is rendered "bald spot". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, 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 seven 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 21:5קָרְחָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- baldness9
- and for baldness1
- baldness your1
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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- קָרְחָ֔ה4
- קָרְחָה֙2
- וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה1
- קָרְחָ֛ה1
- קָרְחָ֑ה1
- קָרְחָֽה׃1
- קָרְחָתֵךְ֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular9HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
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.
- קָרְחָה֙karechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
Deuteronomy
one use
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
- קָרְחָ֛הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
Isaiah
three uses
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
- קָרְחָ֔הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- קָרְחָ֔הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- וּלְקָרְחָ֖הulekarechahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and for baldness
Jeremiah
two uses
The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
- קָרְחָה֙karechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
- קָרְחָ֔הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
Ezekiel
two uses
They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
- קָרְחָֽה׃karechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
- קָרְחָ֔הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
Amos
one use
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- קָרְחָ֑הkarechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: baldness
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.
- קָרְחָתֵךְ֙karechatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: baldness your
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.