קֹ֫רַח
Korah
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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 H7141 appears in the Book of Numbers — 15 distinct verses. 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.
Numbers
- Numbers 16:1 קֹ֔רַח n Proper Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
- Numbers 16:5 קֹ֜רַח n Proper and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near to him.
- Numbers 16:6 קֹ֖רַח n Proper This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
- Numbers 16:8 קֹ֑רַח n Proper Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi:
- Numbers 16:16 קֹ֔רַח n Proper Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
- Numbers 16:19 קֹ֨רַח֙ n Proper Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.
- Numbers 16:24 קֹ֖רַח n Proper Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
- Numbers 16:27 קֹ֛רֶח n Proper So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Numbers 16:32 לְ/קֹ֔רַח prep + n Proper and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
- Numbers 16:40 כְ/קֹ֨רַח֙ prep + n Proper to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 16:49 קֹֽרַח n Proper Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
- Numbers 26:9 קֹ֔רַח n Proper The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,
- Numbers 26:10 קֹ֖רַח n Proper and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:11 קֹ֖רַח n Proper Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn't die.
- Numbers 27:3 קֹ֑רַח n Proper Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
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 קרח centers on the idea of “Korah.” Debuting at Genesis 36:5, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 37 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Numbers dominates its distribution — 15 of 37 verses. For the data behind this summary, explore 37-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7141 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 →
- 37
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 37 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #967
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 967 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 37 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 15 verses 41%
- Psalms 11 verses 30%
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 14%
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 37 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 21 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 16 verses · 43%
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: Korah 33×
- American Standard Version: Korah 21×
- Berean Standard Bible: Korah 33×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Korah 24×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7141 across 37 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7141 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H7141 across 37 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7141 across 27 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 the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. Edomite name:
- a. Gn 36:5, 14, 18; 1 Ch 1:35. e.g. Genesis 36:5
- b. Gn 36:16 (not Sam.; prob. gloss from v 18 Di Kau Ball al.; Holz hesitates). e.g. Genesis 36:16
- 2. Levite, rebel ag. Moses, Nu 16:1 + 10 times 16, 17, 26:9, 10; 27:3; in geneal. lists Ex 6:21, 24 1 Ch 6:7, 22; בֶּן־ק׳ 9:19; בְּנֵי־ק׳ Nu 26:11; especially לִבְנֵי־ק׳ as company of ψ-collectors (or singers), in titles: ψ 42:1; 44:1; 45:1; 46:1; 47:1; 48:1; 49:1; 85:1; 87:1; 88:1. e.g. Numbers 16:1
- 3. a ‘son’ of Hebron, i.e. Judahite clan 1 Ch 2:43 Κορεε, etc. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:43
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. Κορε (baldness?);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קרח (qârach) (H7139) — to be bald.
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.
קֵרֵחַ
- v. next w.) bald, bald head. Gen. R. s. 65, v. קִיוֵּוץ. Bekh. VII, 2 הק׳ פסול a bald-headed person is unfit for priestly functions; איזה ק׳ כל וכ׳ bald-headed (in a legal sense) is he who has not a line of hair from ear to ear. Ib. 58ᵃ הק׳ הזה that bald head (R. Akiba). B. Kam. 60ᵇ נמצא ק׳ מכאן וק׳ מכאן finally he is bald from here and bald from there (has neither white nor black hair); a. fr.—Gitt. VIII, 9, a. e. גט ק׳ a letter of divorce that lacks signatures on each of its folds (v. קָשַׁר).—Pl. קֵרְחִים, קֵרְחִין. Y. Yoma II, end, 40ᵃ הכהנים לרבות הק׳ ‘the priests’ (Lev. I, 5), this includes the bald heads (as fit for that function); Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., Par. 4, ch. VI קַרְחָנִים; Bekh. 43ᵇ קרְחָנִין.—Fem. קֵרַחַת. B. Bath. 132ᵃ ק׳ מכאן ומכאן she is bald on both sides, i.e. has forfeited both claims on her husband’s estate. e.g. Leviticus 1:5
קֵרֵחַ ²
- Targ. O. Lev. XIII, 40 (ed. Berl. קְרֵיחַ; some ed. קְרַח); Y. קְרוּחַ.
קָרַח
- (b. h.) [to be round and smooth,] (denom. of קֵרֵחַ) to make a bald spot. Macc. III, 5 הקוֹרִחַ קרחה וכ׳ he that makes a baldness upon his head. Ib. 20ᵃ יכול אפי׳ ק׳ … קריחות וכ׳ lest you think that even if one makes four or five spots, he is guilty only of one act; Kidd. 36ᵃ; a. e.
- to become bald, hairless, smooth. Maasr. I, 3 האגסים … משיִקָּרְהוּ (Y. ed. משׁיַקְרִיחוּ, a. משיקרחו) pears … are subject to tithes when their surface begins to grow smooth, v. infra. Neg. VIII, 5 חזר … ונִקְרְחוּ if head and chin changed and became bald; Tosef. ib. III, 10 (not שנ׳); a. e.
- 1. same. Tosef. Maasr. I, 2 משיַקְרִיחוּ (not משיקד׳), v. supra. Y. ib. I, 48ᵈ bot. משיקריחו … משיעשו קרחות … לבנות ‘when they get smooth’ (Mish. ib. I, 3, v. supra) …, that means, when they begin to get white, smooth spots (cmp. קְרוּחַ). Ib. וכי מחמת האוכל הן מַקְרִיחִין וכ׳ do the fruits get white spots because of the development of the eatable matter (flesh), is it not on account of worms?; a. e.
- 2. to make bare, raze. Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29ᵃ קרחת … מקריחין אותו וכ׳ ‘a bald portion of a vineyard’ (Mish. ib. IV, 1) is one which is razed in the centre; כרם שחרב מקריחין וכ׳ ‘a waste vineyard’ (ib. 2) is one which is razed on all sides. Sot. 46ᵇ (play on קרח, II Kings II, 23) שהִקְרַחְתָּ עלינו את המקום thou hast made the place bare for us (ruined our water trade by healing the well); a. e.—Part. pass. מוּקְרָח; pl. מוּקְרָחִין. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵇ bot. ששה על ששה מוק׳ וכ׳ when one throws mixed seeds into a plot of six (cubits) by six which lies vacant within a field of grains or which is fenced in. e.g. 2 Kings 2:23
קְרַח I
- , to make bald; to become bald. Pes. 110ᵃ bot. (in an incantation) ק׳ קרחייכי bald be your baldness (may the hair with which you practice your witchcraft fall out). Y. Sabb. XX, end, 17ᵈ (perh. Hebrew) קְרוֹחַ קריחה make bald a bald head (?), v. צְנִינִים.—[Snh. 109ᵇ עד דקרחא some ed., read: דקדחא, v. קְדַח.]
קֶרַח
- (preced. wds.) baldness. Kidd. 36ᵃ (ref. to קרחה Lev. XXI, 5) א"כ נכתוב קרא ק׳ וכ׳ if this were so, the text should read ḳeraḥ, why is it ḳorḥah? e.g. Leviticus 21:5
קרח
- , Sifra Thazr., Neg. ch. I; Yalk. Lev. 550, read: קֶדַח.
קֹרַח
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Korah, leader of a rebellion against Moses. Tosef. Snh. XIII, 9 ק׳ ועדתו וכ׳ Korah and his followers have no share in the world to come; Snh. 109ᵇ עדת ק׳ וכ׳ the followers of K. have &c. Ib. ק׳ שנעשה קרחה וכ׳ (Ms. M. שעשה) he is named Korah (Bald), because baldness (depopulation) was created in Israel; a. v. fr.
קְרַח II
- 1. = h. קֵרֵחַ, v. קֵרֵחַ ch.—Targ. II Kings II, 23 קרְ׳ (ed. Ven. קָרָ׳).—Snh. 63ᵇ ברחא ק׳, v. אֲשִׁימָא. Sabb. 152ᵃ, v. בַּרְחָא, a. מַצּוּיָינָא.
- 2. (cmp. גולבינא a. גלב) a species of peas (P. Sm. s. v. קרחא, 3740 ‘peanuts’).—Pl. קַרְחִין. Y. Ned. IV, 38ᵈ top מי סורס וק׳ an infusion of sores and ḳarḥim
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 14 distinct written forms H7141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קֹ֑רַח | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:5 | 6 |
| קֹ֥רַח | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:21 | 5 |
| קֹֽרַח | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:14 | 5 |
| קֹ֔רַח | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:24 | 4 |
| קֹ֖רַח | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:6 | 4 |
| קֹ֬רַח | Noun, Proper | Psalms 44:1 | 4 |
| קֹ֜רַח | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:19 | 2 |
| וְ/קֹֽרַח | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:35 | 1 |
| כְ/קֹ֨רַח֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:40 | 1 |
| לְ/קֹ֔רַח | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:32 | 1 |
| קֹ֛רֶח | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:27 | 1 |
| קֹ֛רַח | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:16 | 1 |
| קֹ֨רַח֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:19 | 1 |
| קֹ֭רַח | Noun, Proper | Psalms 87:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7141, 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
- קרח qerach H7140 frost
- קרח qêrêach H7142 bald
- קרחה qorchâh H7144 baldness
- קרחת qârachath H7146 bald spot
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 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Korah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Ice, hail. (1.) The third son of Esau, by Aholibamah (Gen. 36:14; 1 Chr. 1:35).
(2.) A Levite, the son of Izhar, the brother of Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron (Ex. 6:21). The institution of the Aaronic priesthood and the Levitical service at Sinai was a great religious revolution. The old priesthood of the heads of families passed away. This gave rise to murmurings and discontent, while the Israelites were encamped at Kadesh for the first time, which came to a head in a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, headed by Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Two hundred and fifty princes, "men of renown" i.e., well-known men from among the other tribes, joined this conspiracy. The whole company demanded of Moses and Aaron that the old state of things should be restored, alleging that "they took too much upon them" (Num. 16:1-3). On the morning after the outbreak, Korah and his associates presented themselves at the door of the tabernacle, and "took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon." But immediately "fire from the Lord" burst forth and destroyed them all (Num. 16:35). Dathan and Abiram "came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children," and it came to pass "that the ground clave asunder that was under them; and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up." A plague thereafter began among the people who sympathized in the rebellion, and was only stayed by Aaron's appearing between the living and the dead, and making "an atonement for the people" (16:47).
The descendants of the sons of Korah who did not participate in the rebellion afterwards rose to eminence in the Levitical service.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(baldness).
+ Third son of Esau by Aholibamah. (Genesis 36:5,14,18; 1 Chronicles 1:35) He was born in Canaan before Esau migrated to Mount Seir, (Genesis 36:5-9) and was one of the "dukes" of Edom. (B.C. 1790.) + Another Edomitish "duke" of this name, sprung from Eliphaz, Esau's son of Adah. (Genesis 36:16) + One of the "sons of Hebron," in (1 Chronicles 2:43) + Son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi. He was leader of the famous rebellion against his cousins Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, for which he paid the penalty of perishing with his followers by an earthquake and flames of fire. (Numbers 16; 26:9-11) The particular grievance which rankled in the mind of Korah and his company was their exclusion from the office of the priesthood, and their being confined--those among them who were Levites-- to the inferior service of the tabernacle. Korah's position as leader in this rebellion was evidently the result of his personal character, which was that of a bold, haughty and ambitious man. (B.C. 1490.) In the New Testament (Jude 1:11) Korah is coupled with Cain and Balaam.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
baldness; ice; frost
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 35 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 37 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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