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title: קָרַר — tear down · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָרַר (lemma:קָרַר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: tear down. BDB 1906: vb. tear down. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָרַר

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«קָרַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tear 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:קָרַר · **BDB:** קָרַר²

### Glosses

breaking.down (1); it.has.kept.cool (1); keeps.cool (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tear down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tear down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear down (?) (NH קִרְקֵר. tear down wall);—only Pt. מְקַרְקַר קִר Is 22:5 usually (men are) tearing down wall(s), but v i. קִיר 3 ad fin.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָרַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 22:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/)

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כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

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[Jeremiah 6:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.7/)

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כְּהָקִ֥יר בַּ֙יִר֙ מֵימֶ֔יהָ כֵּ֖ן הֵקֵ֣רָה רָעָתָ֑הּ חָמָ֣ס וָ֠שֹׁד יִשָּׁ֨מַע בָּ֧הּ עַל־פָּנַ֛י תָּמִ֖יד חֳלִ֥י וּמַכָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* as keeps.cool a.well water its so it.has.kept.cool evil its violence and havoc it.is.heard in it \[are\].on face my continually sickness and wound\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds.

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