keri · hostility, opposition

What it means

keri (קְרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hostility, opposition”.

Opposition: going against someone, walking contrary to him. It appears only in Leviticus 26.

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. Walking against someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus 26:21

  And if you walk with me in opposition and are not willing to listen to me, I will go on to bring on you blows seven times more according to your sins.

• Leviticus 26:23

  And if by these things you are not corrected by me, but walk with me in opposition,

• Leviticus 26:24

  then I also will walk with you in opposition, and I myself will strike you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:27

  And if in spite of this you do not listen to me, but walk with me in opposition,

• Leviticus 26:28

  then I will walk with you in the fury of opposition, and I myself will correct you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:40

  But they will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness that they committed against me, and also that they walked with me in opposition,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked with them in opposition and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the payment for their iniquity,