karach · shave (the head)

What it means

karach (קָרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shave (the head)”.

Shave the head, as a sign of mourning.

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. Remove all hair from one's head in mourning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• make ×2
• Shave yourself bald ×1
• shave himself bald ×1
• was made bald ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Micah×1

• Leviticus 21:5

  They shall not make bald spots on their head, and the edge of their beard they shall not shave off, and in their flesh they shall not make cuts.

• Jeremiah 16:6

  And great and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, nor will people mourn for them, nor will anyone make incisions, nor shave himself bald for them.

• Ezekiel 27:31

  And they will make themselves bald for you, and gird on sackcloth, and weep for you in bitterness of soul, with bitter lamentation.

• Ezekiel 29:18

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform a great labor against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; and there was no wage for him or for his army from Tyre for the labor that he labored against her.

• Micah 1:16

  Shave yourself bald and shear yourself for the children of your delight; make wide your baldness like the eagle, for they have gone into exile from you.