קֶ֫רֶשׁ
board
also: boards, plank fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
24 distinct verses where H7175 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Exodus 24 verses
- Exodus 26:15 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 26:16 הַ/קָּ֑רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 26:17 לַ/קֶּ֨רֶשׁ֙ קַרְשֵׁ֥י prep det + n c ms n c mp cs There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
- Exodus 26:18 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֖ים קֶ֔רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c mp n c ms You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 26:19 הַ/קָּ֑רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֤רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 26:20 קָֽרֶשׁ n c ms For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,
- Exodus 26:21 הַ/קֶּ֣רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 26:22 קְרָשִֽׁים n c mp For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.
- Exodus 26:23 קְרָשִׁים֙ n c mp Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 26:25 קְרָשִׁ֔ים הַ/קֶּ֣רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ n c mp ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 26:28 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
- Exodus 26:29 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֞ים ptcl def.art + n c mp You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
- Exodus 36:20 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 36:21 הַ/קָּ֑רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 36:22 לַ/קֶּ֨רֶשׁ֙ קַרְשֵׁ֥י prep det + n c ms n c mp cs Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tent this way.
- Exodus 36:23 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֖ים קְרָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp n c mp He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 36:24 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֑ים הַ/קֶּ֤רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 36:25 קְרָשִֽׁים n c mp For the second side of the tent, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
- Exodus 36:26 הַ/קֶּ֣רֶשׁ הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 36:27 קְרָשִֽׁים n c mp For the far part of the tent westward he made six boards.
- Exodus 36:28 קְרָשִׁים֙ n c mp He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 36:30 קְרָשִׁ֔ים הַ/קֶּ֥רֶשׁ n c mp ptcl def.art + n c ms There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
- Exodus 36:33 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
- Exodus 36:34 הַ/קְּרָשִׁ֞ים ptcl def.art + n c mp He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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.
קרש — transliterated qeresh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “board.” Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (91% of all occurrences). Spanning 34 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. It also covers “boards” and “plank”, alongside “board” — see its full sense range. The King James Version usually renders it “boards,” while modern versions prefer “frames” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. 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 H7175 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 →
- 34
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 34 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #723
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 723 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 34 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 34 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 33 verses · 97%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 3%
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: Boards 30×, Board 17×, All the boards 2×
- American Standard Version: Boards 29×, Board 17×, All the boards 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Frames 27×, Frame 7×, Each frame 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Frames 26×, Frame 16×, Frames of 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7175 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H7175 across 51 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7175 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 9 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7175 across 54 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.
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 2 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. coll. boards, of deck Ez 27:6 (of Tyre under fig. of ship). e.g. Ezekiel 27:6
- 2. board of tabern. Ex 26:15, 16(×2) + 45 times 26–40; Nu 3:36; 4:31 (all P). e.g. Exodus 26:15
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.m. Ex 26:16 board, boards;—abs. ק׳ Ex 26:18 +, קָ֑רֶשׁ v 20 +; sf. קַרְשֵׁךְ Ez 27:6; pl. קְרָשִׁים v 15 +; cstr. קַרְשֵׁי v 26 +; sf. קְרָשָׁיו 35:11 +;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to split off
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.
קֶרֶשׁ I
- ḳarash collegit … et partes junxit) board. Sabb. 102ᵇ ק׳ שנפלה וכ׳ a board attacked by a worm, v. דַּרְנָא; a. e.—Pl. קְרָשִׁים. Ex. R. s. 52 הרי ק׳ הרי וכ׳ here are the boards (for the Tabernacle), here are the bolts &c. Sabb. XII, 3 קַרְשֵׁי המשכן the boards of the Tabernacle; a. fr.
קֶרֶשׁ II
- ḳeresh, name of a kind of antelope, unicorn. Ḥull. 59ᵇ ק׳ טביא וכ׳ the ḳ. is the gazelle of Be-Ilai (v. טִגְרוֹס). Ib. ק׳ אע"פ שאין לו וכ׳ the ḳ. is permitted, although it has only one horn. Y. Sabb. II, 4ᵈ bot. ק׳ היה שמה וכ׳ it (the taḥash) was named ḳeresh … having one horn. B. Bath. 16ᵇ (ref. to קרן הפוך, Job XLII, 14) שדומה לקרנא דק׳ she had the complexion of the horn of the ḳ.; קרנא דק׳ לקותא היא but this would mean a defect (not a description of beauty). e.g. Job 42:14
קָרַשׁ
- (cmp. קָרַס) [to be joined, v. קֶרֶשׁ I,] to become solid, congeal, contract. Gen. R. s. 4; Y. Ber. I, 2ᶜ bot. ובשני קָרְשׁוּ, v. לַח. Ib. יִקְרַשׁ הרקיע let the heavens congeal. Gen. R. s. 33 עמודים … בצנה שלא יִקְרְשׁוּ marble columns covered with carpets in the winter, lest they contract (and crack), v. קָרַס. Pes. V, 5 ויקרש הדם and the blood may congeal; a. fr.—Part. pass. קָרוּשׁ. Y. Nidd. III, beg. 50ᶜ דם הוא שהוא ק׳ וכ׳ it is blood which congealed and formed a lump. Y. Sabb. II, 4ᵈ כל שמתיכין אותו ואינו ק׳ whatever you melt, and it becomes not solid again. Succ. 12ᵃ יין ק׳ הוא משניר וכ׳ it means a jelly of wine from Senir that resembles fig cakes.
- to cause to congeal. Tosef. Ḥull. VI, 7 השוחט וה׳ וכ׳ (ed. Zuck. והקדיש, corr. acc.) if one slaughters and allows the blood to congeal.
קְרַשׁ
- 1. (neut. verb) to congeal, become solid. Targ. Y. Ex. XIV, 22 קַרְשׁוּן (not קרשוון).
- 2. to cause to congeal, curdle; to freeze. Targ. Job X, 10.—V. קַרִישׁ.
- same. Ḥull. 120ᵃ דא׳ some ed. (oth. דקַרִישׁ), v. חָלָא III
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 21 distinct written forms H7175 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 33 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 34 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
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.
