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:
2 Chronicles 6:33: "and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all"
2 Chronicles 6:33: "this house which I have built is called by thy name."
2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek"
2 Chronicles 10:3: "And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to"
2 Chronicles 14:11: "And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing"
2 Chronicles 18:8: "And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly"
2 Chronicles 18:12: "And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying,"
2 Chronicles 20:3: "himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah."
2 Chronicles 20:26: "the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto"
2 Chronicles 24:6: "And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required"
2 Chronicles 32:18: " Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king."
2 Chronicles 34:24: "in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all"
Ezra 2:61: "a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:"
Ezra 8:21: " Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before"
Nehemiah 5:12: "as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do"
Nehemiah 6:7: "And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king"
Nehemiah 7:63: "one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name."
Nehemiah 8:3: " And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from"
Nehemiah 8:8: " So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand"
Nehemiah 8:18: "unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept"
Nehemiah 9:3: "And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God"
Nehemiah 13:1: "On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found"
Esther 2:14: "except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name."
Esther 3:12: "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month,"
Esther 4:5: " Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed"
Esther 4:11: "the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death,"
Esther 4:11: "the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto"
Esther 5:12: "but myself; and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king."
Esther 6:1: "of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king."
Esther 6:9: "him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done"
Esther 6:11: "and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man"
Esther 8:9: "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that"
Esther 9:26: "Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name"
Job 1:4: "in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat"
Job 5:1: " Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints"
Job 9:16: "If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice."
Job 12:4: "I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright"
Job 13:22: " Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer"
Job 14:15: " Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands."
Job 17:14: " I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister."
Job 19:16: " I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth."
Job 27:10: "in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?"
Job 42:14: " And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name"
Psalms 3:4: " I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill."
Psalms 4:1: "A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress;"
Psalms 4:3: "him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto"
Psalms 14:4: "my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD."
Psalms 17:6: "I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear"
