kora · beam, roof

What it means

kora (קוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beam, roof”.

Beam; hence, roof. "The shadow of my roof" is the protection owed to a guest.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Thick timber holding up a house; the covering of a house.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• beam ×2
• beams ×2
• roof ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Song of Songs×1

• Genesis 19:8

  Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not do anything, for that is why they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

• 2 Kings 6:2

  Let us go, please, to the Jordan, and let us take from there each one beam, and let us make for ourselves there a place to live there.” He said, “Go.”

• 2 Kings 6:5

  And it happened, as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my lord! And it was borrowed!”

• 2 Chronicles 3:7

  He covered the house —the beams, the thresholds, its walls and its doors— with gold, and he engraved cherubim on the walls.

• Song of Songs 1:17

  The beams of our houses are cedars, our rafters cypresses.