krcha · baldness

What it means

krcha (קׇרְחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “baldness”.

A bald spot: a part of the head shaved bare 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. The shaved head as a sign of mourning.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• baldness ×9
• bald ×2

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1
• 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.

• Deuteronomy 14:1

  You are sons of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead,

• Isaiah 3:24

  And it will happen that instead of balsam there will be rot, and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of the work of hairdressing, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; a burn instead of beauty.

• Isaiah 15:2

  He goes up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails; on all its heads baldness, every beard shaved off.

• Isaiah 22:12

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot called on that day to weeping and to lamentation and to baldness and to girding on sackcloth.

• Jeremiah 47:5

  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been silenced, the remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

• Jeremiah 48:37

  For every head is baldness, and every beard shaved off; on all hands gashes, and on the loins sackcloth.

• Ezekiel 7:18

  And they will gird on sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all faces will be shame, and on all their heads baldness.

• 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.

• Amos 8:10

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• 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.