STRONGS NUMBER H7139


Word Summary
qarach: to make bald
Original Word: קָרַח
Transliteration: qarach
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-rakh')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to make bald
Meaning: to make bald
Strong's Concordance
make self bald

A primitive root; to depilate -- make (self) bald.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7139. qarach

I. [קָרַח‎] verb make bald, or a baldness, usually (by mourners) for the dead, compare RsSemitic i. 306, 2nd ed. 324 (Arabic parallels) (Late Hebrew id. Hiph`il shew baldness; Arabic wound, make sores, whiteness in face of horse (but be bald, bald); Ethiopic make bald (rare); Aramaic קְרַח‎, , chiefly derivatives (and derived Meanings); compare Sinaitic proper name, masculine קרחו קרחה,‎; MI3.21.24.25 proper name, of a location קרחה‎); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine plural בְּראִשָׁם קָרְחָה יִקְרְחוּLeviticus 21:5 Qr (> Kt יקרחה‎; "" יְגַלֵּ֑חוּ‎ compare Deuteronomy 14:1); Imperative feminine singular עַל וָגֹ֫זִּי קָרְחִיMicah 1:16 make a baldness... for.

Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular לָהֶם יִקָּרֵחַJeremiah 16:6 men shall not make themselves bald for them.

Hiph`il Perfect3plural consecutive קָרְחָה אֵלַיִח וְהִקְרִיחוּEzekiel 27:31 and they shall make a baldness (compare

Qal>) for thee.

Hoph`al Participle מֻקְרָח כָּלרֿאִשׁEzekiel 29:18 every head made bald (by carrying load).