קְשֹׁט
truth
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 H7187 appears — 2 distinct verses 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.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 2:47 קְשֹׁט֙ n c ms The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret.
- Daniel 4:37 קְשֹׁ֔ט n c ms Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
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.
קשוט — transliterated qᵉshôwṭ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “truth.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. It first appears in Daniel 2:47. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7187 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: Are truth 1×, Truth 1×
- American Standard Version: Are truth 1×, Truth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are true 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are right 1×, Truly 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7187 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7187 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7187 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7187 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- truth
Word origin
Derived from קשט (qôsheṭ) (H7189) — truth.
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.
קְשׁוֹט
- (קְשַׁט)
- 1. [straightness,] truth, righteousness. Targ. Gen. XXIV, 48, sq. Targ. Y. ib. V, 22; 24. Targ. II Chr. VI, 18 (h. text האמנם); a. fr.—Lev. R. s. 26 אנא בעלם דק׳ … מילין דק׳ I (Samuel) am now in the world of truth (v. עָלְמָא), and thou shalt hear from me none but words of truth; Tanḥ. Emor 2. Sabb. 104ᵃ ק׳ קאי truth stands firm (v. לְבַן). Snh. 97ᵃ מריש … ליכא ק׳ בעלמא וכ׳ formerly I thought there was no truth in the world. Ib. איקלע … ק׳ שמיה he came to a place named Ḳushṭa (Truth); a. fr.—Pl. קוּשְׁטִין. Targ. Y. Num. XXII, 37 מן ק׳ (h. text האמנם).—Y. Ḥag. II, beg. 77ᵃ ק׳ אתון אמרין דהין וכ׳ do you (Jews) indeed say that the world is maintained by air?
- 2. (sub. גבר) true. Targ. II Esth. I, 2 תמים וק׳ upright and true.
קִשּׁוּט
- , v. sub קִישּׁ׳.
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 2 distinct written forms H7187 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| קְשֹׁ֔ט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 4:37 | 1 |
| קְשֹׁט֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:47 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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
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