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:
Isaiah 65:12: "bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not"
Isaiah 65:15: "for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:"
Isaiah 65:24: "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking,"
Isaiah 66:4: "and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not"
Jeremiah 1:15: "For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith"
Jeremiah 2:2: "Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 3:4: "Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?"
Jeremiah 3:12: "Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,"
Jeremiah 3:17: "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations"
Jeremiah 3:19: "of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from"
Jeremiah 4:5: "Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go"
Jeremiah 4:20: "Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled:"
Jeremiah 6:30: "Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected"
Jeremiah 7:2: "in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word,"
Jeremiah 7:10: "me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do"
Jeremiah 7:11: "Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den"
Jeremiah 7:13: "and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;"
Jeremiah 7:14: "Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye"
Jeremiah 7:27: "them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer"
Jeremiah 7:30: "their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute"
Jeremiah 9:17: "the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for"
Jeremiah 10:25: "and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up"
Jeremiah 11:6: "Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words"
Jeremiah 11:14: "will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble."
Jeremiah 11:16: "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:"
Jeremiah 12:6: "have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not,"
Jeremiah 14:9: "save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not."
Jeremiah 15:16: "and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God"
Jeremiah 19:2: "is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that"
Jeremiah 19:6: "place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom,"
Jeremiah 20:3: "Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but"
Jeremiah 20:8: "since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because"
Jeremiah 23:6: "and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
Jeremiah 25:29: "to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished?"
Jeremiah 25:29: "Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all"
Jeremiah 29:12: " Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto"
Jeremiah 29:29: "And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah"
Jeremiah 30:17: "thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion,"
Jeremiah 31:6: "that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto"
Jeremiah 32:34: "their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile"
Jeremiah 33:3: " Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."
Jeremiah 33:16: "safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness."
Jeremiah 34:8: "all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty"
Jeremiah 34:15: "right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made"
Jeremiah 34:15: "before me in the house which is called by my name:"
Jeremiah 34:17: "have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man"
Jeremiah 34:17: "and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to"
Jeremiah 35:17: "unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered."
Jeremiah 36:4: "Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote"
Jeremiah 36:6: "Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth,"
