קָרַע
to tear
‘to tear’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘tear away’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be rent’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
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.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 25 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 18 times (29%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Construct 4 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 4 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 3 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 2 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (3%)
+17 more forms (25 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 63 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7167 appears — 60 distinct verses across 21 books. 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.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 37:29 וַ/יִּקְרַ֖ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
- Genesis 37:34 וַ/יִּקְרַ֤ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 44:13 וַֽ/יִּקְרְע֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 28:32 יִקָּרֵֽעַ Niphal impf 3ms It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
- Exodus 39:23 יִקָּרֵֽעַ Niphal impf 3ms The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:12 קְרֻעִ֔ים Qal ptcp.pass mp There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
- 1 Samuel 15:27 וַ/יִּקָּרַֽע conj + Niphal wimpf 3ms As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
- 1 Samuel 15:28 קָרַ֨ע Qal pf 3ms Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
- 1 Samuel 28:17 וַ/יִּקְרַ֨ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:2 קְרֻעִ֔ים Qal ptcp.pass mp it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
- 2 Samuel 1:11 וַ/יִּקְרָעֵ֑/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:
- 2 Samuel 3:31 קִרְע֤וּ Qal impv 2mp David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
- 2 Samuel 13:19 קָרָ֑עָה Qal pf 3fs Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
- 2 Samuel 13:31 וַ/יִּקְרַ֥ע קְרֻעֵ֥י conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
- 2 Samuel 15:32 קָר֨וּעַ֙ Qal ptcp.pass ms It happened that when David had come to the top [of the ascent], where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.
1 Kings 9 verses
- 1 Kings 11:11 קָרֹ֨עַ אֶקְרַ֤ע Qal inf.abs Qal impf 1cs Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
- 1 Kings 11:12 אֶקְרָעֶֽ/נָּה Qal impf 1cs + sfx pers 3fs Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 11:13 אֶקְרָ֔ע Qal impf 1cs However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
- 1 Kings 11:30 וַ/יִּ֨קְרָעֶ֔/הָ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
- 1 Kings 11:31 קֹרֵ֤עַ Qal ptcp.act ms He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
- 1 Kings 13:3 נִקְרָ֔ע Niphal pf 3ms He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.
- 1 Kings 13:5 נִקְרָ֔ע Niphal pf 3ms The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 14:8 וָ/אֶקְרַ֤ע conj + Qal wimpf 1cs and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
- 1 Kings 21:27 וַ/יִּקְרַ֣ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
2 Kings 10 verses
- 2 Kings 2:12 וַ/יִּקְרָעֵ֖/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
- 2 Kings 5:7 וַ/יִּקְרַ֣ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
- 2 Kings 5:8 קָרַ֤ע קָרַ֖עְתָּ Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 2ms It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
- 2 Kings 6:30 וַ/יִּקְרַ֣ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
- 2 Kings 11:14 וַ/תִּקְרַ֤ע conj + Qal wimpf 3fs and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
- 2 Kings 17:21 קָרַ֣ע Qal pf 3ms For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.
- 2 Kings 18:37 קְרוּעֵ֣י Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
- 2 Kings 19:1 וַ/יִּקְרַ֖ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 22:11 וַ/יִּקְרַ֖ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.
- 2 Kings 22:19 וַ/תִּקְרַע֙ conj + Qal wimpf 2ms because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 23:13 וַ/תִּקְרַ֤ע conj + Qal wimpf 3fs and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also [played] on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
- 2 Chronicles 34:19 וַ/יִּקְרַ֖ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.
- 2 Chronicles 34:27 וַ/תִּקְרַ֥ע conj + Qal wimpf 2ms because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 9:3 קָרַ֥עְתִּי Qal pf 1cs When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
- Ezra 9:5 וּ/בְ/קָרְעִ֥/י conj + prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Esther 1 verse
Job 2 verses
- Job 1:20 וַ/יִּקְרַ֣ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
- Job 2:12 וַֽ/יִּקְרְעוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Psalms 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 36:22 קְרוּעֵ֣י Qal ptcp.pass mp cs Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
- Isaiah 37:1 וַ/יִּקְרַ֖ע conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 64:1 קָרַ֤עְתָּ Qal pf 2ms Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
Jeremiah 5 verses
- Jeremiah 4:30 תִקְרְעִ֤י Qal impf 2fs You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.
- Jeremiah 22:14 וְ/קָ֤רַֽע conj + Qal wpf 3ms who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
- Jeremiah 36:23 יִֽקְרָעֶ֨/הָ֙ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
- Jeremiah 36:24 קָרְע֖וּ Qal pf 3cp They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
- Jeremiah 41:5 וּ/קְרֻעֵ֥י conj + Qal ptcp.pass mp cs that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 13:20 וְ/קָרַעְתִּ֣י conj + Qal wpf 1cs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to make [them] fly.
- Ezekiel 13:21 וְ/קָרַעְתִּ֞י conj + Qal wpf 1cs Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 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.
קרע — transliterated qâraʻ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to tear.” The King James Version usually renders it “rent,” while modern versions prefer “tore” (Berean Standard Bible) and “he tore” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. With 60 verses in 21 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 37:29, it then recurs through the corpus. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 2 stems (Qal, Niphal, and more). 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 H7167 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 →
- 60
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 60 distinct verses.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #611
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 611 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 60 occurrences in the concordance →
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 60 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 43 verses · 72%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 17%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 12%
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: Rent 20×, He rent 10×, Rend 3×
- American Standard Version: Rent 21×, He rent 7×, It 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tore 13×, Torn 8×, He tore 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He tore 11×, Tore 7×, Tear 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7167 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 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 H7167 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 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 H7167 across 63 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 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 H7167 across 70 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 10 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.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ 1 S 15:28 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקְרַע Gn 37:29 +; 1 s. sf. אֶקְרָעֶנָּה 1 K 11:12, etc.; Imv. mpl. קִרְעוּ 2 S 3:31 Jo 2:13; Inf. abs. קָרֹעַ 1 K 11:11; cstr. לִקְרוֹעַ Ec 3:7, sf. קָרְעִי Ezr 9:5; Pt. act. קֹרֵעַ 1 K 11:31; pass. קָרוּעַ 2 S 15:32, etc.;—tear, rend: e.g. 1 Samuel 15:28
- 1.
- a. usually (39 times) of rending garment in (1) grief: בֶּגֶד Gn 37:29, שִׂמְלָה 37:34; 44:13, כְּתֹנֶת 2 S 13:19, ק׳ ב׳ לִשְׁנַיִם קְרָעִים 2 K 2:12, ק׳ לְבַבְכֶם וְאַל ב׳ Jo 2:13; pt. pass. בְּגָדָיו ק׳ 2 S 1:2; cstr. קְרֻעֵי ב׳ torn of garments (pers. with torn garments) 2 S 13:31 (but read קָֽרְעוּ ב׳ 𝔊 𝔙 Th We al.), 2 K 18:37 = Is 36:22, Je 41:5; מְעִיל †Jb 1:20; 2:12 Ezr 9:3 (+ בֶּגֶד), כְּתֹנֶת 2 S 13:19, קָרוּעַ כֻּתָּנְתּוֹ 2 S 15:32 (Ges§ 121 d); שְׂמָלֹת †Gn 37:34; 44:13; Jos 7:6; pt. pass. †מַדָּיו קְרֻעִים 1 S 4:12; †(2) as symbolic act, ק׳ שַׂלְמָה שְׁנֵים עָשָׁר קְרָעִים 1 K 11:30; †(3) abs. עֵת לִקְרוֹעַ וְעֵת לִתְפּוֹר Ec 3:7. e.g. Genesis 37:29
- b. tear away or out: veils Ez 13:21, fillets from (מֵעַל) arms v 20, mark of leprosy out of (מִן) garment Lv 13:56. e.g. Ezekiel 13:21
- 2. tear away sovereignty (under fig. of garment), subj. י׳, מֵעַל pers. 1 S 15:28 1 K 11:11, also מִיַּד 1 S 28:17 1 K 11:12, 31, מִן 14:8, abs. 11:13; c. acc. יִשׂ׳ + מֵעַל 2 K 17:21. e.g. 1 Samuel 15:28
- 3. tear, rend asunder:
- a. book with (ב) knife Je 36:23. e.g. Jeremiah 36:23
- b. = make wide, large, eyes, with (ב) stibium Je 4:30; windows, וק׳ לוֹ חַלּוֹנָ֑י[ו] 22:14. e.g. Jeremiah 4:30
- c. rend open heavens, and descend, of י׳, Is 63:19. e.g. Isaiah 63:19
- 4. tear, rend, of wild beasts: י׳ as fierce bear Ho 13:8 (obj. סְגוֹר לִבָּם); fig. of human foes ψ 35:15 (acc. pers. om.), so Hup al., but (from context) Ol Bae We al. malign, rail (cf. Arabic supr.); > Gr al. קָרְאוּ. e.g. Hosea 13:8
Niphal
- be rent, of garment (מְעִיל), Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקָּרַ֑ע 1 S 15:27, יִקָּרֵעַ Ex 28:32; 39:23; be rent, split asunder, of altar 1 K 13:3, 5. e.g. 1 Samuel 15:27
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
vb. tear (NH id.; Arabic قَرَعَ strike head, bell, etc., beat drum, box ear, gnash teeth (Frey Dozy); also impugn, censure);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
קָרַע
- (b. h.) to tear, split; esp. to rend the garment in mourning. Kel. XVI, 5 עד שיִקְרְעֶנּוּ (Mish. ed. שיַקְרִיעֶנּוּ Hif.) until he tears the bale open. M. Kat. 22ᵇ על כל … אינו קוֹרֵעַ אלא עליון for all dead (except parents) … one must rend only the upper garment. Ib. האשה קוֹרַעַת וכ׳ a woman (mourning for her parents) rends the lower garment and puts it back in its place, and then rends the upper garment. Snh. 60ᵃ אחד השומע … חייב לִקְרוֹעַ both he that hears a blasphemy directly, and he that hears it from one that heard it (and reports as witness before court) must rend his garment; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. קָרוּעַ; pl. קְרוּעִים, קְרוּעִין. M. Kat. 26ᵇ היוצא בבגד ק׳ וכ׳ he that marches before a corpse with a garment rent (for a previous case) robs (deceives) the dead and the living. Ib.ᵃ (ref. to II Kings II, 12) ק׳ ועומדים לשנים remaining always rent in two; ib. 22ᵇ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 4); Snh. l. c.; a. fr. e.g. 2 Kings 2:12
- 1. same. M. Kat. 26ᵇ ואין מְקָרְעִין בפניו you must not rend your garment in his (the sick man’s) presence. Ib. מקרעין לקטן וכ׳ we rend a minor’s garment in order to make him feel sad; ib. 14ᵇ. R. Hash. 16ᵇ ארבעה … מקרעין גזר וכ׳ four things cause an evil decree passed on man to be torn (cancelled), they are: charity, prayer &c.; a. fr.
- 2. (cmp. גָּרַע) to scrape, to mark the outlines of letters by abrasion. Gitt. 19ᵇ עדים … מקרעין להם וכ׳ for witnesses that know not how to sign their names, grooves are made on blank paper, and they fill the grooves out with ink; ib. 9ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 44ᵇ top ומְקָרֵעַ; [Tosaf. to Gitt. 9ᵇ: you cut the names out on blank paper and put it on the document, and the witnesses fill the cuts out]. Tosef. Sabb. XI (XII), 8, contrad. fr. רשם; a. e.
- to be torn; to be cut open, be operated upon by a section. Yeb. VIII, 6, a. e. טומטום שנ׳, v. טוּמְטוּם. Bekh. 42ᵇ שמא יִקָּרֵעַ וכ׳ he may have an operation performed, and be found a eunuch; Tosef. Yeb. XI, 1; Yeb. 83ᵇ. B. Bath. 168ᵇ נ׳ פסול נִתְקָרֵעַ כשר if a document is found torn, it is invalid; if it appears torn by accident, it is valid as evidence; ib. נ׳ קֶרַע של בית דין נתק׳ וכ׳ miḳrʿa refers to the rent as made in court for cancellation, nithḳareʿa refers to a rent different from the manner customary in court; Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ; a. e.
- to become torn, v. supra.
קְרַע
- M. Kat. 20ᵇ אמימר … ק׳ עילויה when Amemar’s grandson died, he rent his garment for him. Keth. 104ᵃ קַרְעִיה וכ׳, v. קִרְעָא; a. e.
- same. Targ. Ps. XXXV, 15 Ms. (ed. בזע).—Part. pass. מְקָרַע. Ber. 58ᵇ, v. וִילוֹן
- to be torn, cut open. Bekh. 42ᵇ אטו כל דמִיקְּרַע וכ׳ is every ṭumṭum that is operated upon found to be a male?; Yeb. 83ᵇ
קֶרַע
- preced.)
- 1. rent; piece. B. Bath. 168ᵇ ק׳ של בית דין, v. קָרַע; Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ. Ib. איזהו ק׳ … בין כתב לעדים which is a rent made in court? A cut between the writing and the signatures of the witnesses; (different in B. Bath. l. c.); a. e.—Esp. the rent in the garment as a symbol of mourning. M. Kat. 24ᵃ כל ק׳ שאינו … אינו ק׳ a rent not made at the moment of excitement (v. חִימּוּם) is no rent (has no symbolical meaning); Y. B. Mets. II, end, 8ᵈ, v. בֶּהָלָה. M. Kat. 22ᵇ, v. קְרִיעָה; a. fr.—Pl. קְרָעִים, קְרָעִין. Ib. 26ᵃ ואלו ק׳ שאין וכ׳ and these are the rents which must never be stitched together. Sifra Thazr. Par. 5, ch. XVI (ref. to Lev. XIII, 57) לימד על כל הק׳ וכ׳ this shows that all the torn-off pieces must be burnt. Snh. 60ᵃ נתמלא כל הבגד ק׳ one’s entire garment might soon be full of rents. Tosef. B. Kam. III, 2 לא יאמר … ואת הק׳ וכ׳ the injured person cannot say, take thou … the pieces (the torn garment) and restore to me a cloak; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 13:57
- 2. the groove made by marking the outlines of letters. Y. Gitt. III, 44ᵇ מרחיב בפניהן את הק׳ (in the case of witnesses that know not how to sign their names) one must make wide grooves for them (so as to leave room for individual characters in filling out the outlines).—Pl. as ab. Bab. Gitt. 19ᵇ, v. קָרַע.
קֶרַע ²
- Keth. 104ᵃ קַרְעֵיה … לקִרְעֵיה וכ׳ he rent his garment (at Rabbi’s death), and turned the rent inside (to hide it); a. e.—Pl. קְרָעִין. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ top וקרעון ואזל קלא דקרעין וכ׳ (not דקרעון) they rent their garments, and the lamentations accompanying the rending were heard as far &c., v. גּוֹבְבָתָא; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ top קלה לק׳ (read: דק׳); Koh. R. to VII, 11, a. IX, 10 קליה דקריעה, read: דקִירְעָה (sing.).
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Forms in the corpus
The 47 distinct written forms H7167 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7167, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 59 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 60 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 37:29
- Exodus 28:32
- Leviticus 13:56
- Numbers 14:6
- Joshua 7:6
- Judges 11:35
- 1 Samuel 4:12
- 2 Samuel 1:2
- 1 Kings 11:11
- 2 Kings 2:12
- 2 Chronicles 23:13
- Ezra 9:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
