כׇּרְסֵא
throne
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3764 appears — 2 distinct verses 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.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 5:20 כָּרְסֵ֣א n c ms cs But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Daniel 7:9 כָרְסָוָן֙ כָּרְסְיֵ/הּ֙ n c mp n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
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.
At its core, כרסא (korçêʼ) means “throne.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). Scripture first uses it in Daniel 5:20. It shares a root with כסא and כס. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3764 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 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: Throne 2×
- American Standard Version: Throne 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Throne 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Throne 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3764 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3764 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3764 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3764 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- throne, royal chair
Word origin
Derived from כסא (kiççêʼ) (H3678) — throne.
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.
כַּרְסָא
- , also womb. Targ. Y. Num. V, 21. Targ. Y. Lev. IV, 8 (O. גַּוָּא; h. text קֶרֶב). Targ. Job XXXI, 18; a. fr.—Ḥull. 50ᵇ v. אִסְתּוֹמְכָא. Ib. נפל כ׳ בבירא the stomach fell into the well, i.e. your definition of the ‘inner stomach’ is of no value. Gen. R. s. 70 (prov.) כ׳ טענא רגליא the stomach carries the feet, i.e. cheerful prospects lend physical energy; Yalk. ib. 123. Gitt. 12ᵃ דנהום כַּרְסֵיה לא שוי (Ar. דנהם כריסא) who is not worth the bread he eats; B. Kam. 97ᵃ. Koh. R. to XI, 9 כְּרֵיסֵיה דהאי גברא קומך בזעה this man’s (my) stomach is before thee, cut it open (I cannot pay for my meal); Pesik. Shub., p. 164ᵇ הא כ׳ … בזעיה (masc.); a. fr.—Yeb. 65ᵇ bot. איכו ילדת לי חדא כ׳ אחריתי Oh that you would bear unto me one more issue of the womb!—Gen. R. s. 68 מני … בכ׳ דביתך (= h. בקרב ביתך) count twenty beams in the inner chamber of thy house; (Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᵇ bot. גו בייתיך).—Pl. כְּרֵי סַיָּא (m.); כְּרֵיסַן, כַּרְסָתָא. Targ. Y. Num. V, 22 (not כְּרִיסָן). Targ. Ps. XVII, 14.—Keth. 103ᵃ תרתי כ׳ לית לה she has not two stomachs (double alimentation is of no use to her).
כָּרְסֵא
- , chair, pl. כָּרְסָוָן, v. כּוּרְסַיָּא.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3764 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָרְסָוָן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 7:9 | 1 |
| כָּרְסְיֵ/הּ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:9 | 1 |
| כָּרְסֵ֣א | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 5:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3764, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
