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:
Ecclesiastes 3:7: "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
Isaiah 36:22: "to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh."
Isaiah 37:1: "when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth,"
Isaiah 64:1: "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,"
Jeremiah 4:30: "thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair;"
Jeremiah 22:14: "house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted"
Jeremiah 36:23: "three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into"
Jeremiah 36:24: "Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any"
Jeremiah 41:5: "and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves,"
Ezekiel 13:20: "the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go,"
Ezekiel 13:21: "Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand,"
Hosea 13:8: "I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour"
Joel 2:13: " And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God:"
