קוֹרָה
beam
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where H6982 appears in the Absolute state, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 6:2 קוֹרָ֣ה n c fs Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.
- 2 Kings 6:5 הַ/קּוֹרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
2 Chronicles 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.
“beam” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun קורה (qôwrâh). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in 2 Kings. First canonically at Genesis 19:8, it enters the text early. It shares a root with קור, מקור and קור. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6982 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 2 verses 40%
- Genesis 1 verse 20%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 20%
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: Beam 2×, Beams 2×
- American Standard Version: Beam 2×, Beams 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beams 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beam 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6982 across 5 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 H6982 across 5 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 H6982 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear 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 H6982 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- rafter, beam
Word origin
n.f. rafter, beam (proposes a thing meeting, fitting into, another);—sf. קֹרָתִי Gn 19:8 (J) =my roof-tree; pl. קֹרוֹת rafters, abs. 2 Ch 3:7, cstr. ‖ 1 K 6:15b (reading קוֹרוֹת הַסִּכֻּן 𝔊 Th Kit Benz, for MT קִירוֹת), + 7:7b (reading הַקּוֹרוֹת for הַקַּרְקָ֑ע, v. ק׳); Ct 1:17 (‖ רחיטנו Kt, רָהִיטֵנוּ Qr); more gen. beam, sg. abs. קוֹרָה 2 K 6:2, 5.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קור (qûwr) (H6979) — to dig.
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.
קוֹרָה I
- ch., v. קוֹרָא II
קוֹרָה II
- cold, cooling; קוֹרַת רוח [cooling of the spirit,] satisfaction, pleasure, comfort. Ab. IV, 17 יפה … של ק׳ ר׳ וכ׳ better one hour of gratification in the hereafter than a whole life of this world. Yeb. 63ᵇ אין אדם מוצא ק׳ ר׳ וכ׳ a man finds contentment only with his first wife. Lev. R. s. 3, end ברוך … לך ק׳ ר׳ be blessed and contented. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ bot. ותבא לפניך קורת נפשנו לטובה and may our contentment come before thee for good; a. e.
קוֹרָה III
- 1. joist, beam, post. Gen. R. s. 42, a. e., v. עוֹבִי.—קוֹרַת בית הבד, v. בַּד II. Kel. XII, 1 קוֹרַת החצים (not קורות) the (iron-shod) post used as a target for arrows; של אסירין the beam with holes for the hands of prisoners on a transport. Lam. R. to III, 12, v. חֵץ; a. fr.—Kel. XI, 2 הק׳ (Mish. ed. הקורא) the long iron bolt of a city gate (corresp. to נגר, v. Maim. ed. Dehr. a. l. expl. נגר).
- 2. the trunk of a tree with its ramifications. Midr. Sam. ch. XIII, v. כְּוֶורֶת. Y. Sabb. X, 10ᵃ קורת שקמה the trunk of a sycamore tree; a. e.—Pl. קוֹרוֹת, קוֹרִים. Yoma 47ᵃ, v. קֶלַע II. Y. Peah VII, end, 20ᶜ; Pes. 57ᵃ; Tosef. ib. II (III), 22. Y. Ter. II, 41ᵇ bot.—Gen. R. s. 41, beg.; Num. R. s. 3, beg. שפעת ק׳; Yalk. Ps. 845 שפעת קוֹרֶיהָ, v. שִׁפְעָה I; a. fr.—[Gen. R. s. 71 מאחורי הקורים, v. קוֹרִיִּים.]
קוֹרָה IV
- (part. fem. of קָרָה I) accident, event. — Pl. קוֹרוֹת. Tanḥ. P’ḳudé 3 גוזר על כל קוֹרוֹתָיו וכ׳ he decrees concerning all things that will happen to him, except whether he is to be righteous or wicked.
קוּרָה
- cavity, window; web. Yalk. Ps. 789, v. קוּבָּה.
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 5 distinct written forms H6982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/קֹּר֧וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 3:7 | 1 |
| הַ/קּוֹרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 6:5 | 1 |
| קֹר֤וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Song of Solomon 1:17 | 1 |
| קֹרָתִֽ/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 19:8 | 1 |
| קוֹרָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 6:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6982, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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