Midvash

קֵרֵחַqêrêach

bald (Leviticus 13:40; Leviticus 13:41; 2 Kings 2:23)

Pronunciation: kay-ray'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7142

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 13:40 “If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.
  • 2 Kings 2:23 Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of boys from the town began mocking and making fun of him. “Go away, baldy!” they chanted. “Go away, baldy!”
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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).