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title: קׇרְחִי — Korahite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קׇרְחִי (7145), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Korahite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קׇרְחִי

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«קׇרְחִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Korahite** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 7145 · **BDB:** קָרְחִי

### Glosses

Korahites (3); the.Korahite\[s\] (3); Korahite (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Korahite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of קֹרַח 2; always c. art.; 1 Ch 9:31; as subst. coll. Ex 6:24 Nu 26:58; pl. הַקָּרְחִים 1 Ch 9:19; 12:7 (van d. H. v 6), 26:1; בְּנֵי הַקָּרְחִי v 19; בְּנֵי הַקָּרְחִים 2 Ch 20:19.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קׇרְחִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7145/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.7/)

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אֶלְקָנָ֡ה וְ֠יִשִּׁיָּהוּ וַעֲזַרְאֵ֧ל וְיוֹעֶ֛זֶר וְיָשָׁבְעָ֖ם הַקָּרְחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam the Korahites

*JPS 1917:* Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

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[Exodus 6:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.24/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י קֹ֔רַח אַסִּ֥יר וְאֶלְקָנָ֖ה וַאֲבִיאָסָ֑ף אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַקָּרְחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Korah \[were\].Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph these \[were\].the.clans of the.Korahite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

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