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title: כְּרִית — Cherith · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּרִית (3747), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Cherith. BDB 1906: n.pr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּרִית

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«כְּרִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Cherith** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3747 · **BDB:** כְּרִית²

### Glosses

of.Kerith (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Cherith [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. the brook where Elijah was hidden 1 K 17:3, 5, identif. dub.; acc. RobBR ii. p. 288 Wady el-Kelt, near Jericho; acc. Buhl Handw. 12 Wady ʿAjlun, E. of Jordan, yet v. BuhlG. 121.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּרִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3747/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.3/)

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לֵ֣ךְ מִזֶּ֔ה וּפָנִ֥יתָ לְּךָ֖ קֵ֑דְמָה וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* go from here and you.will.turn (for yourself eastward and you.will.hide.yourself at the.wadi of.Kerith which \[is\].on the.face of the.Jordan

*JPS 1917:* 'Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

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[1 Kings 17:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.17.5/)

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וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went and he.did according to.the.word of.Yahweh and he.went and he.dwelt at the.wadi of.Kerith which \[is\].on the.face of the.Jordan

*JPS 1917:* So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

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