קוֹרָהqôwrâh
rafter, beam, (properly a thing meeting, fitting into, another) (Genesis 19:8; 2 Chronicles 3:7; 1 Kings 6:15; 1 Kings 7:7; Song of Solomon 1:17)
Pronunciation: ko-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6982
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:8 Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection.”
- 2 Kings 6:2 Let’s go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet.” “All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”
- 2 Kings 6:5 But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried. “It was a borrowed ax!”
- 2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.
- Song of Solomon 1:17 fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house, and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters.
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).