קֶרַע
kera · torn piece, rag
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7168 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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kera (קֶרַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “torn piece, rag”.
A torn piece of cloth, a rag. From the same root as "tear."
How to say it
ke·ra
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 strip ripped from cloth; torn clothes.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- pieces ×3
- rags ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 11:30
And Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
- 1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, ‘Look, I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you the ten tribes;
- 2 Kings 2:12
Elisha was watching and he was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see him again. Then he took hold of his clothes and tore them in two pieces.
- Proverbs 23:21
for the drinker and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.