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title: קְרִי — opposition · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְרִי (7147), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: opposition. BDB 1906: opposition, contrariness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְרִי

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«קְרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **opposition** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 7147 · **BDB:** קְרִי

### Glosses

contrariness (6); of.contrariness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

opposition [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7147/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

opposition, contrariness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7147/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] opposition, contrariness;—only (בְּ)קֶ֑רִי in Lv 26, as adv. modifier of הָלַךְ (in fig. sense), + עִם pers., of Isr.’s relation to י׳: תֵּלְכוּ עִמִּי קֶ֑רִי Lv 26:21 if ye walk with me contrariwise, so v 23, בְּקֶ֑רִי v 27, 40; י׳ subj., וְהָלַכְתִּי עִמָּכֶם בַּקֶּ֑רִי v 24, so v 41 and (בַּחֲמַת ק׳ in wrath of opposition) v 28.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קְרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7147/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 26:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.23/)

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וְאִ֨ם־בְּאֵ֔לֶּה לֹ֥א תִוָּסְר֖וּ לִ֑י וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֥ם עִמִּ֖י קֶֽרִי׃

*Word for word:* and if by these.\[things\] not you.will.let.yourself.be.disciplined by me and you.will.walk with me contrariness

*JPS 1917:* And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;

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[Leviticus 26:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.27/)

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וְאִ֨ם־בְּזֹ֔את לֹ֥א תִשְׁמְע֖וּ לִ֑י וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֥ם עִמִּ֖י בְּקֶֽרִי׃

*Word for word:* and if in this not you.will.listen to me and you.will.walk with me in contrariness

*JPS 1917:* And if ye will not for all this hearken unto Me, but walk contrary unto Me;

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