karan · shine; have horns

What it means

karan (קָרַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shine; have horns”.

Send out rays of light, shine. It comes from the word "horn", which also means "ray"; also have horns (Psalm 69:31).

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. Send out rays of light.
2. To have horns on the head, like a young ox.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shone ×3
• horns ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 34:29

  And it happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had spoken with him.

• Exodus 34:30

  And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and look, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near to him.

• Exodus 34:35

  And the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; and Moses would put back the veil on his face until he went in to speak with him.

• Psalms 69:31

  And it will be better to YHWH than an ox, than a bull with horns and hoofs.