קׇדְקֹד
head
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 9 times (82%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (18%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6936 appears — 11 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:35 קָדְקֳדֶֽ/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 33:16 וּ/לְ/קָדְקֹ֖ד conj + prep + n c ms cs For the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it, The good will of him who lived in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
- Deuteronomy 33:20 קָדְקֹֽד n c ms Of Gad he said, Blessed be he who enlarges Gad: He dwells as a lioness, Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 7:16 קָ֝דְקֳד֗/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Psalms 68:21 קָדְקֹ֥ד n c ms cs But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 2:16 קָדְקֹֽד n c ms The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
- Jeremiah 48:45 וְ/קָדְקֹ֖ד conj + n c ms cs Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
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.
The Hebrew noun קדקד centers on the idea of “head.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 49:26. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 3 of 11 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside קדד and קדה. Dig into 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6936 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 3 verses 27%
- Psalms 2 verses 18%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 18%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 36%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 27%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Crown of the head 4×
- American Standard Version†: Crown of the head 5×, Crown of thy head 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Brow 1×, Crown of his head 1×, Crown of your head 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Pate 2×, Pate of 2×, Top of the head of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6936 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6936 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6936 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6936 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear 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.
- head, crown of head, top of head, hairy crown, scalp
Word origin
n.[m.] head, crown of head;—ק׳ abs. Dt 33:20; Je 2:16, cstr. Is 3:17 +; sf. קָדְקֳדוֹ 2 S 14:25; Jb 2:7; קָדְקֳדֶ֑ךָ Dt 28:25;—especially poet. Gn 49:26 = Dt 33:16, ψ 7:17, ק׳ שֵׂעָר 68:22 hairy crown or scalp (all ‖ רֹאשׁ), Is 3:17; Je 2:16; 48:45 (‖ פֵּאָה), so read also Nu 24:17 for וְקַרְקַר (‖ id.), v. Ew Di Pat al., Dt 33:20; in prose only מִכַּף רֶגֶל וְעַד־ק׳ Dt 28:35; 2 S 14:25; Jb 2:7.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קדד (qâdad) (H6915) — to bow down.
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.
*קַדְקַד
- (cmp. נָקד I) to speckle. Part. pass. מְקַדְקַד; pl. מְקַדְקְדִין. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXI, 10; 12 Ar. (ed. גביהון חיורין).
קָדְקֹד
- head, skull, vertex; summit. Neg. X, 10, a. e., v. גַּבַּחַת. Men. 37ᵃ בין עיניך זו ק׳ ‘between thy eyes’ (Deut. VI, 8), that means the vertex; expl. ib. מקום וכ׳ the place on the head where the child’s brain is seen to pulsate; (Sifré Deut. 35 בגובה של ראש); Erub. 95ᵇ. Gen. R. s. 62, end בא מקָדְקֳדוֹ של מדבר he came all the way from the highest point of the desert. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXIII, 4 (expl. גיא צלמות ib.) בק׳ של מדבר; a. e.—Pl. קָדְקֳדִים. Lev. R. s. 9; s. 25, a. e. בקָדְקֳדֵי ראשיהן by the tops of their heads. e.g. Deuteronomy 6:8
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 9 distinct written forms H6936 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/לְ/קָדְקֹ֖ד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 33:16 | 2 |
| קָדְקֹֽד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 33:20 | 2 |
| וְ/קָדְקֹ֖ד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 48:45 | 1 |
| קָ֝דְקֳד֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 7:16 | 1 |
| קָדְקֳד֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Samuel 14:25 | 1 |
| קָדְקֳדֶֽ/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 28:35 | 1 |
| קָדְקֳדֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 2:7 | 1 |
| קָדְקֹ֖ד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 3:17 | 1 |
| קָדְקֹ֥ד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 68:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6936, 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 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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.
