kerach · frost, ice

What it means

kerach (קֶרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “frost, ice”.

Ice, frost.

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. Frozen water, or the cold that freezes it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ice ×4
• frost ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 31:40

  This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Job 6:16

  which are dark because of the ice; in them the snow hides itself.

• Job 37:10

  By the breath of El ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is held in constraint.

• Job 38:29

  From the womb of whom has the ice come out? And the frost of the heavens, who has given it birth?

• Psalms 147:17

  He throws his ice like crumbs; before his cold who can stand?

• Jeremiah 36:30

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will not have one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.

• Ezekiel 1:22

  And over the heads of the living creature there was the likeness of a vault, like the gleam of fearsome frost, spread out over their heads above.