קֵרֹס
Keros
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Keros’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7026 appears in the Book of Ezra — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ezra
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 name קירס centers on the idea of “Keros.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Ezra dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Ezra 2:44. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7026 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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: Keros 2×
- American Standard Version: Keros 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Keros 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Keros 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7026 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7026 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7026 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7026 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Keros = "ankle"
- head of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
Word origin
Derived from קרסל (qarçôl) (H7166) — ankle.
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.
קֵירָס
- (καιρός) opportunity, season. Koh. R. to XI, 3 אם הגיע קִירְסוֹ של תלמיד וכ׳ when the proper time comes for the scholar to teach &c. Ib. אם הגיע קִירְסָן וכ׳ when the turn of the prophets comes to prophesy &c. Esth. R. to I, 13 (ref. to לעתים, I Chr. XII, 23) שהיו יודעין לרפאות את הקֵירוֹס (not הקירום) they knew how to mend the time (destiny); [a gloss: קליפה העולה מחמת מכה, from misreading קֵירוּם, v. קָרַם]; Cant. R. to VI, 4 לרצוא את הקורם (ed. Wil. לרפות את הקורס; corr. acc.).—Pl. קִירְסִים, קִירְסִין (קִרְ׳). Pesik. Vayḥi, p. 9ᵃ (ref. to לעתים, v. supra) לק׳ understanding of the seasons (v. LXX, I Chr. l. c.); Esth. R. l. c.; Cant. R. l. c. (not לקו׳); Num. R. s. 13; Gen. R. s. 72 לקורניסין (corr. acc., or לקֵירוֹסִין); [Var. in Ar. לקִירְטִין].—[Gen. R. s. 58 בקרסין, v. קְלִירוֹס.—Y. Shebi. II, 33ᵈ קירסים, v. next w.] e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:23
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 2 distinct written forms H7026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קֵירֹ֥ס | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 7:47 | 1 |
| קֵרֹ֥ס | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:44 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Keros). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(curved), one of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:44; Nehemiah 7:47)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
crooked; crookedness
Classic public-domain reference works; 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 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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