Strong's #7121: qara' (pronounced kaw-raw')
a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications):--bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qârâ'
1) to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to call, cry, utter a loud sound
1a2) to call unto, cry (for help), call (with name of God)
1a3) to proclaim
1a4) to read aloud, read (to oneself), read
1a5) to summon, invite, call for, call and commission, appoint, call and endow
1a6) to call, name, give name to, call by
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to call oneself
1b2) to be called, be proclaimed, be read aloud, be summoned, be named
1c) (Pual) to be called, be named, be called out, be chosen
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [rather identical with H7122 through the idea of accosting a person met]
Usage:
This word is used 736 times:
Proverbs 1:21: " She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,"
Proverbs 1:24: "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"
Proverbs 1:28: "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find"
Proverbs 2:3: "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;"
Proverbs 7:4: "unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:"
Proverbs 8:1: "Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?"
Proverbs 8:4: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man."
Proverbs 9:3: "She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,"
Proverbs 9:15: " To call passengers who go right on their ways:"
Proverbs 9:18: "that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell."
Proverbs 12:23: "knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness."
Proverbs 16:21: "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning."
Proverbs 18:6: "enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes."
Proverbs 20:6: "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who"
Proverbs 21:13: "at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard."
Proverbs 24:8: "He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person."
Proverbs 27:16: "the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which betrayeth"
Ecclesiastes 6:10: "That which hath been is named already, and it is known that"
Song of Solomon 5:6: "I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
Isaiah 1:13: "is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity,"
Isaiah 1:26: "and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful"
Isaiah 4:1: "and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
Isaiah 6:3: " And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,"
Isaiah 6:4: "of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke."
Isaiah 7:3: "Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son,"
Isaiah 7:14: "shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
Isaiah 8:3: "Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz."
Isaiah 8:4: "before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches"
Isaiah 9:6: "his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God,"
Isaiah 12:4: "shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people,"
Isaiah 13:3: "have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness."
Isaiah 14:20: "the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."
Isaiah 21:8: " And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower"
Isaiah 21:11: "The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what"
Isaiah 22:12: "did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding"
Isaiah 22:20: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:"
Isaiah 29:11: "to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith,"
Isaiah 29:12: "him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee:"
Isaiah 30:7: "in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still."
Isaiah 31:4: "when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice,"
Isaiah 32:5: "The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said"
Isaiah 34:12: " They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be"
Isaiah 34:14: "with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also"
Isaiah 34:16: "ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these"
Isaiah 35:8: "shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not"
Isaiah 36:13: "Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear"
Isaiah 37:14: "the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house"
Isaiah 40:2: "Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare"
Isaiah 40:3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert"
Isaiah 40:6: "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh"
