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title: קָרַס — bend down · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָרַס (7164), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: bend down. BDB 1906: vb. bend down, stoop, crouch. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָרַס

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«קָרַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bend down** — 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:** 7164 · **BDB:** קָרַס

### Glosses

\[is\].stooping.low (1); they.have.stooped.low (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bend down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bend down, stoop, crouch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bend down, stoop, crouch (intrans.) (cf. perhaps Arabic قُرْصٌ disc, round cake; cp. NH קַרְסוֹל, קַרְצוֹל, 𝔗 קַרְסוּלָּא, קַרְצוּלָא all ankle);— Pf. 3 pl. קָרְסוּ Is 46:2; Pt. קֹרֵס v 1 (both + כָּרַע); of vanquished gods of Babylon.

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָרַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7164/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 46:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.2/)

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קָרְס֤וּ כָֽרְעוּ֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו לֹ֥א יָכְל֖וּ מַלֵּ֣ט מַשָּׂ֑א וְנַפְשָׁ֖ם בַּשְּׁבִ֥י הָלָֽכָה׃ס

*Word for word:* they.have.stooped.low they.have.bowed.down together not they.have.been.able to.rescue a.burden and self their in (the) captivity it.has.gone

*JPS 1917:* They stoop, they bow down together, they could not deliver the burden; and themselves are gone into captivity.

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[Isaiah 46:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.1/)

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כָּרַ֥ע בֵּל֙ קֹרֵ֣ס נְב֔וֹ הָיוּ֙ עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֔ם לַחַיָּ֖ה וְלַבְּהֵמָ֑ה נְשֻׂאֹתֵיכֶ֣ם עֲמוּס֔וֹת מַשָּׂ֖א לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.bowed.down Bel \[is\].stooping.low Nebo they.belong idols their to the animal\[s\] and to the cattle burdens your \[are\].carried a.load for a.weary.\[animal\]

*JPS 1917:* Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

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