קַעֲקַע
tattoo
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
- 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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7085 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.
Leviticus 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.
At its core, קעקע (qaʻăqaʻ) means “tattoo.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Leviticus (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Leviticus 19:28. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7085 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
- Leviticus 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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Any marks 1×
- American Standard Version: Any marks 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tattoo 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tattoo 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7085 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7085 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7085 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7085 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.
- incision, imprintment, tattoo, mark
Word origin
n.[m.] incision, imprintment, tattoo; Lv 19:28 (H), v. כְּתֹבֶת (RSSem. i. 316; 2nd ed. 324).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קוע (Qôwaʻ) (H6970) — Koa.
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.
קִעְקֵעַ I
- (onomatop.) to cackle; to call hens by imitating their cackling. Kidd. 31ᵃ (sarcastically) הטל … וקַעְקֵעַ להן וכ׳ put water in a bowl and call them as you do hens.
קִעְקֵעַ II
- (transpos. of עקעק, v. עוּק; cmp. גִּעְגֵּעַ)
- 1. to engrave (cmp. חָקַק); to etch in. Macc. III, 6 כתב ולא ק׳ ק׳ … וִיקַעְקֵעַ if he writes (on his skin) but makes no impression, or makes an impression but does not write, he is not guilty (of trespassing the law, Lev. XIX, 28) until he writes and stamps with ink &c.; Sifra K’doshim, Par. 3, ch. VI; a. e. e.g. Leviticus 19:28
- 2. to stamp out, exterminate. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ top, a. e., v. בֵּיצָה. Tosef. B. Kam. X, 5; Y. Gitt. V, 47ᵃ bot. יְקַעְקֵעַ כל הבירה וכ׳ he must (if necessary) take down the entire group of buildings in order to restore it (the stolen beam). Ex. R. s. 35 החריבה אותו אלא שלא קִעְקְעָה אותו וכ׳ she (Babylon) laid the Temple in ruins, but she did not stamp it out, whereas of Edom it is written (Ps. CXXXVII, 7), ‘raze it, raze it &c.’ e.g. Psalms 137:7
- to be stamped out, v. בֵּיצָה. Esth. R. to I, 7 מי גרם … שתִּתְקַעְקֵעַ ביצתו וכ׳ what was the cause that Belshazzar’s dynasty was entirely exterminated? Ruth R. to IV, 14 מברכותיהן … לא נִתְקַעְקְעָה ביצתו וכ׳ owing to the blessings of the women, the seed of David was not entirely exterminated in the days of Athaliah. Pesik. R. s. 12 ואימתי שמשו שוקעת וביצתו מִתְקַעְקַעַת וכ׳ and when shall his (Amalek’s) sun go down and his egg be stamped out and his seed uprooted?
קַעְקַע
- preced.) impression; כתובת ק׳ etched inscription. Macc. III, 6; Lev. R. s. 19, a. e., v. כְּתוֹבֶת.
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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