קֵרֵחַ
kereach · bald (back of head)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7142 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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kereach (קֵרֵחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bald (back of head)”.
Bald, without hair at the back or top of the head.
How to say it
ke·re·ach
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
- A person whose hair has fallen from his head.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- baldhead ×2
- bald ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 13:40
And if a man’s head loses its hair, he is bald; he is clean.
- 2 Kings 2:23
He went up from there to Bethel, and as he was going up on the road, small boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, baldhead! Go up, baldhead!”
And 1 more times.