Strong's #7167: qara` (pronounced kaw-rah')
a primitive root; to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them):--cut out, rend, X surely, tear.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qâra‛
1) to tear, tear in pieces
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to tear, rend
1a2) to tear away or out
1a3) to tear, rend asunder
1a3a) to make wide or large (of eyes)
1a3b) to rend open (of heavens)
1a4) to tear, rend (of wild beasts)
1b) (Niphal) to be rent, be split asunder
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 63 times:
Genesis 37:29: "Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes."
Genesis 37:34: "And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for"
Genesis 44:13: " Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city."
Exodus 28:32: "of a habergeon, that it be not rent."
Exodus 39:23: "round about the hole, that it should not rend."
Leviticus 13:56: "be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of"
Numbers 14:6: "them that searched the land, rent their clothes:"
Joshua 7:6: "And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before"
Judges 11:35: "And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter!"
1 Samuel 4:12: "to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head."
1 Samuel 15:27: "he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent."
1 Samuel 15:28: "said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from"
1 Samuel 28:17: "he spoke by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand,"
2 Samuel 1:2: "from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head:"
2 Samuel 1:11: "Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that"
2 Samuel 3:31: "the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn"
2 Samuel 13:19: "ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on"
2 Samuel 13:31: "Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all"
2 Samuel 13:31: "his servants stood by with their clothes rent."
2 Samuel 15:32: "the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:"
1 Kings 11:11: "and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom"
1 Kings 11:11: "and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom"
1 Kings 11:12: "I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand"
1 Kings 11:13: "Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one"
1 Kings 11:30: "garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:"
1 Kings 11:31: "the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand"
1 Kings 13:3: "hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out."
1 Kings 13:5: "The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which"
1 Kings 14:8: " And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not"
1 Kings 21:27: "those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon"
2 Kings 2:12: "more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces."
2 Kings 5:7: "had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God,"
2 Kings 5:8: "that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to"
2 Kings 5:8: "the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to"
2 Kings 6:30: "the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by"
2 Kings 11:14: "and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason,"
2 Kings 17:21: "For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made"
2 Kings 18:37: "to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh."
2 Kings 19:1: "when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth,"
2 Kings 22:11: "the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes."
2 Kings 22:19: "the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept"
2 Chronicles 23:13: "and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason,"
2 Chronicles 34:19: "the words of the law, that he rent his clothes."
2 Chronicles 34:27: "and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep"
Ezra 9:3: "this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off"
Ezra 9:5: "sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell"
Esther 4:1: "that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth"
Job 1:20: "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,"
Job 2:12: "him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled"
Psalms 35:15: "against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:"
