קֶרַחqerach

frost, ice

Pronunciation: keh'-rakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7140

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 31:40 “I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.
  • Job 6:16 when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.
  • Job 37:10 God’s breath sends the ice, freezing wide expanses of water.
  • Job 38:29 Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
  • Psalms 147:17 He hurls the hail like stones. Who can stand against his freezing cold?
  • Jeremiah 36:30 Now this is what the Lord says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to lie unburied—exposed to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.
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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).