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Greek/Hebrew Definitions



Strong's #7139: qarach (pronounced kaw-rakh')

a primitive root; to depilate:--make (self) bald.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qârach

1) to be bald, make bald

1a) (Qal) to make bald, make a baldness

1b) (Niphal) to make oneself bald

1c) (Hiphil) to make oneself bald

1d) (Hophal) to make bald

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Leviticus 21:5: "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard,"
Jeremiah 16:6: "for them: nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald"
Ezekiel 27:31: " And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness"
Ezekiel 29:18: "Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had"
Micah 1:16: " Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle;"









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