קְרִיאָה
proclamation
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7150 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.
Jonah 1 verse
About this entry
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קריאה — transliterated qᵉrîyʼâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “proclamation.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Jonah. A true hapax — its single appearance is Jonah 3:2. It shares a root with קרא, מקרא and קרא. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7150 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
- Jonah 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Preaching 1×
- American Standard Version: Preaching 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Message 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Proclamation 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7150 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7150 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7150 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7150 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.
- proclamation, preaching
Word origin
קְרִיאָה n.f. proclamation;— Jon 3:2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קרא (qârâʼ) (H7121) — to call.
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.
קְרִיאָה
- (קָרָא)
- 1. call. Sifra Vayikra, Par. 1 (ref. to Lev. I, 1) הקדים ק׳ לדיבור the Lord sent the call in advance of the speech. Ib. על כל ק׳ הוא אומר הנני to every call he responded with ‘here am I.’ Deut. R. s. 11, beg. חתם יצחק בק׳ Isaac closed his blessings with a call (Gen. XXVIII, 1); אני … אלא בק׳ I will commence with a call (ib. XLIX, 1); a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 1:1
- 2. reading esp. from the Scriptures. קְרִיאַת שמע (קְרִיַּת) (abbrev. ק"ש), or ק׳ (sub. שמע) the recitation of Sh’mʿa (Deut. VI, 4-9; XI, 13-21; Num. XV, 37-41) in the morning and in the evening prayer. Ber. 13ᵇ מצות ק׳ the duty of reciting, contrad. to מצות כונה, v. כַּוָּנָה. Ib. זו ק"ש של ר׳ וכ׳ this (the verse Deut. VI, 4) was all that R. Judah han-Nasi read (when engaged in teaching); a. fr.—V. שְׁמַע II.—קריאת המגלה the recitation of the Book of Esther. Meg. I, 4; a. fr.—Ib. 14ᵃ קְרִיָּיתָהּ זו הלילא (not קרייתא), v. הַלֵּלָא.—Macc. 18ᵇ הראויין לק׳ those first-fruits which are fit for reciting over them (Deut. XXVI, 3 sq.); a. fr.—Pl. קְרִיאוֹת, קְרִיּוֹת. Deut. R. s. 4, beg. מהו לקרות … בק׳ הרבה how about reading ‘the reproofs’ (תּוֹכָחָה) by several calls (by calling up several persons successively). Ib. אם יקראו … ק׳ הרבה וכ׳ if they do read … by several calls, each called-up person should not recite the benediction before and after &c.—Cmp. קְרוּיוֹת. e.g. Deuteronomy 6:4
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7150, 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
- מקרא miqrâʼ H4744 convocation
- קרא qᵉrâʼ H7123 to call
- קרא qôrêʼ H7124 partridge
- קריא qârîyʼ H7148 called
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 7 — 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 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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