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title: קָרָה — coolness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָרָה (7135), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: coolness. BDB 1906: n.f. Pi. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָרָה

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«קָרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **coolness** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 7135 · **BDB:** קָרָה⁴

### Glosses

coldness (3); of.coldness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

coolness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. Pi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—abs. בְּיוֹם ק׳ Na 3:17 a day of coldness, cold day, so Pr 25:20; ק׳ alone, cold of night Jb 24:7; in gen., due to winds 37:9 (מִמְּזָרִים v. זרה Pi.; yet Voigt Bu, attractively, מִמְּזָוִים (cf. ψ 144:13) out of storehouses \[‖ חֶדֶר\]); לִפְנֵי קָרָתוֹ מִי יַעֲמֹד ψ 147:17, + pl. Zc 14:6 (read וְקָרוֹת, v. יָקָר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7135/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 37:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.9/)

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מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from the chamber it.comes a.storm-wind and from the.scattering.winds coldness

*JPS 1917:* Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.

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[Job 24:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.7/)

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עָר֣וֹם יָ֭לִינוּ מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת בַּקָּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* naked they.spend.the.night from not clothing and there.\[is\].not covering in the coldness

*JPS 1917:* They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

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