Midvash

קָרָאqârâʼ

call, proclaim, read

Pronunciation: kaw-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7121

Meanings

Qal: active, passive (Genesis 11:9; Isaiah 7:14; Judges 12:1)

1.

a. call, cry, utter a loud sound (Judges 9:7; 2 Samuel 18:25; 2 Samuel 18:28)

b. call, cry, object in oratio recta [direct speech] (Judges 7:20; 1 Samuel 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:6)

2.

a. call unto some one (Genesis 3:9; Genesis 19:5; Exodus 3:4)

b. cry for help (Zechariah 7:13; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 65:24)

c. with name of Baal, call with name of ׳ י (i.e. use it in invocation) (Genesis 4:26; Genesis 12:8; 2 Kings 5:11)

3. proclaim

a. proclaim a fast, against, concerning (Amos 4:5; Genesis 41:43; Deuteronomy 15:2)

c. proclaim (with) name over (Psalms 49:12; Ruth 4:11; Ezekiel 23:23)

d. make proclamation (Judges 7:3; Jeremiah 2:2; Zechariah 1:14)

4.

a. read aloud (Jeremiah 36:6; Jeremiah 36:8; Jeremiah 36:14)

b. read, to oneself (Deuteronomy 17:19; Nehemiah 8:18; Habakkuk 2:2)

c. read (2 Kings 22:16)

5. summon

a. summon (Genesis 12:18; Genesis 20:8; Genesis 20:9)

b. call for (Exodus 10:24; Joshua 4:4; Joshua 10:24)

c. invited ones, guests (Genesis 41:8; Genesis 41:14; Exodus 2:7)

d. call, summon (Amos 7:4; Isaiah 22:12; 1 Samuel 3:5)

e. call and commission, appoint (Isaiah 48:15; Isaiah 49:1; Exodus 31:2)

f. call and endow, (with privilege) (Isaiah 51:2; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 55:5)

6. call = name

a. call one's name (Genesis 3:20; Genesis 4:25; Genesis 4:26)

b. with accusative of appellation only (Ezekiel 39:11)

c. accusative of person or location + accusative appellative (Hosea 2:18; Deuteronomy 3:14; Jeremiah 23:6)

d. accusative of person + clause (Psalms 89:27)

e. = give name to (Hosea 2:18; Genesis 35:18; 1 Samuel 4:21)

h. call by (Numbers 32:38)

i. call cities (Joshua 21:9; 1 Chronicles 6:50)

Niph`al

1. from the holy city they call themselves. (Isaiah 48:2)

2. be called

a. be proclaimed (Jeremiah 44:26; Ruth 4:14; Jeremiah 4:20)

b. be read aloud, (compare Qal 4) (Nehemiah 13:1; Esther 6:1)

c. be summoned, (compare Qal 5) (Isaiah 31:4; Esther 3:12; Esther 4:11)

d. be named, (compare Qal 6.) (Genesis 2:23; 1 Samuel 9:9; Isaiah 32:5)

Pu`al: be called and privileged, = be named, (compare Qal 5.f.) (Isaiah 48:8; Ezekiel 10:13; Isaiah 58:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 733 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
  • Genesis 1:8 God called the space “sky.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
  • Genesis 1:10 God called the dry ground “land” and the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
  • Genesis 2:19 So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
  • Genesis 2:20 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
  • Genesis 2:23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
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