כְּרִיתKᵉrîyth

כְּרִית: proper name [of a location]: see below כרת

Pronunciation: ker-eeth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3747

Meanings

כְּרִית: proper name: the brook where Eliajah was hidden, identification dubious (1 Kings 17:3; 1 Kings 17:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 17:3 “Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook, near where it enters the Jordan River.
  • 1 Kings 17:5 So Elijah did as the Lord told him and camped beside Kerith Brook, east of the Jordan.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).