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title: קָרַח — make bald · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָרַח (7139), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: make bald. BDB 1906: vb. make bald baldness Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָרַח

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«קָרַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make bald** — 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:** 7139 · **BDB:** קָרַח

### Glosses

they.will.make.bald (2); \[was\].made.bald (1); anyone.will.make.himself.bald (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make bald [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7139/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. make bald baldness Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7139/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. make bald, or a baldness, usually (by mourners) for the dead, cf. RSSem. i. 306, 2nd ed. 324 (Arabic parallels) (NH id. Hiph. shew baldness; Arabic قَرَحَ wound, make sores, قُرْحَةٌ whiteness in face of horse (but قَرَعَ be bald, أَقْرَعُ bald); Ethiopic ቀርሐ make bald (rare); Aramaic קְרַח, ܩܪܰܚ, chiefly deriv. (and der. meanings); cf. Sin. n.pr.m. קרחה, קרחו; MI3, 21, 24, 25 n.pr.loc. קרחה);— Impf. 3 mpl. יִקְרְחוּ קָרְחָה בְּרֹאשָׁם Lv 21:5 Qr (\> Kt יקרחה; ‖ יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ cf. Dt 14:1); Imv. fs. קָרְחִי וָגֹ֫זִּי עַל Mi 1:16 make a baldness … for. Impf. 3 ms. יִקָּרֵחַ לָהֶם Je 16:6 men shall not make themselves bald for them. Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְהִקְרִיחוּ אֵלַיִךְ קָרְחָה Ez 27:31 and they shall make a baldness (cf. Qal) for thee. Pt. כָּל־רֹאשׁ מֻקְרָח Ez 29:18 every head made bald (by carrying load).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָרַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7139/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.31/)

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וְהִקְרִ֤יחוּ אֵלַ֙יִךְ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְחָגְר֖וּ שַׂקִּ֑ים וּבָכ֥וּ אֵלַ֛יִךְ בְּמַר־נֶ֖פֶשׁ מִסְפֵּ֥ד מָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.make.bald because of.you baldness and they.will.gird.themselves sackcloth(s) and they.will.weep because of.you with bitterness of.emotion wailing bitter

*JPS 1917:* And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter lamentation.

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[Micah 1:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.16/)

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קָרְחִ֣י וָגֹ֔זִּי עַל־בְּנֵ֖י תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִךְ הַרְחִ֤בִי קָרְחָתֵךְ֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁר כִּ֥י גָל֖וּ מִמֵּֽךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* make.bald and shave on the.children your.delights your make.large baldness your like (the) eagle (dm) they.will.go.into.exile from you

*JPS 1917:* Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the vulture; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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