הָכַר
to deal wrongly
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1970 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to deal wrongly” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb הכר (hâkar). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Job, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Job 19:3. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1970 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ye make yourselves strange 1×
- American Standard Version: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mistreat 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: You mistreat 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1970 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1970 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1970 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1970 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Hiphil) to deal wrongly with
Word origin
[ הָכַר ] vb. only Qal or Hiph. Jb 19:3, sense very dubious; (as Hiph.) ye cause me to wonder; (as Qal) ye deal hardly with me, wrong me
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
הַכֶּר
- (imper. Hif. of נכר) recognize!, the word hakker. Sot. 10ᵇ בה׳ בישר וכ׳ with the word hakker (Gen. XXXVII, 32) he brought the news to his father, with hakker did they &c. (Gen. XXXVIII, 25). Gen. R. s. 85 (the account of Tamar follows that of the sale of Joseph) כדי לסמוך ה׳ לה׳ in order to let one hakker follow the other hakker.—ה׳ פנים partiality. Ex. R. s. 30 (ref. to Prov. XXIII, 23). e.g. Genesis 37:32
כַּר
- , v. כָּרָה)
- 1. bolster, mattress. Mikv. X, 2. Kel. XXVI, 5, v. כֶּסֶת; a. fr.—Pl. כָּרִים. Kil. IX, 2; a. fr.—Meg. 12ᵃ (expl. כרפס, Esth. I, 6) כ׳ של פסים mattresses of striped goods. e.g. Esther 1:6
- 2. rounded; (cmp. כֶּבֶשׂ) fat lamb. Men. 66ᵇ, a. e., v. כַּרְמֶל.—Esth. R. to I, 14 (play on כ̇ר̇ש̇נ̇א) מי … כ̇ר̇ בן ש̇נ̇ה (not פר) who offers unto thee a lamb one year old?—Pl. as ab. Meg. 12ᵇ כ׳ בני שנה; Yalk. Esth. 1051 פרים (corr. acc.). [Y. Sabb. V, 7ᵇ bot. כ׳ יוצאין לבובין ed. Krot., read: זכרים.]—Trnsf. commander.—Pl. as ab. Koh. R. to XII, 7, a. e., v. כלירכין.—4) runner, roller.—Pl. as ab. Gen. R. s. 69 מעבירין כ׳ עליהם pass the paving rollers over them; (ib. s. 41 רדיה; Yalk. Is. 337 דדין).
כַּר ²
- , bolster. Gitt. 47ᵃ כריסי כָּרִי my fat belly is my bolster. Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵈ top; Y. Taan. I, 64ᶜ [read:] (תותי) תחות כָּרֵיה under his bolster.—Pl. כָּרִין. Targ. Lam. II, 21.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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