קֶרֶןqeren
קֶ֫רֶן: horn
Pronunciation: keh'-ren · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7161
Meanings
1.
a. of ram (Genesis 22:13; Daniel 8:3; Daniel 8:6)
b. used as oil-flask (1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Kings 1:39)
c. as wind-instrument (Joshua 6:5)
d. (from curved shape of tusks) (Ezekiel 27:15)
2. especially as lifted up, figurative, of person, symbol of strength (Deuteronomy 33:17; 2 Samuel 22:3; Psalms 18:3)
3. of altar, horn-like projections at corners (Amos 3:14; Jeremiah 17:1; Ezekiel 43:15)
4. hill (Isaiah 5:1)
5. of lightning-flashes in theophany (Habakkuk 3:4; Amos 6:13)
קַרְנַ֫יִם: proper name [of a location]: conquered by Israel, probably in Bashan (Amos 6:13; Genesis 14:5)
קרן: horn
1. instrument of music (Daniel 3:5; Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:10)
2. symbolic, in vision (Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 76 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
- Exodus 27:2 Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.
- Exodus 29:12 Put some of its blood on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest at the base of the altar.
- Exodus 30:2 Make it 18 inches square and 36 inches high, with horns at the corners carved from the same piece of wood as the altar itself.
- Exodus 30:3 Overlay the top, sides, and horns of the altar with pure gold, and run a gold molding around the entire altar.
- Exodus 30:10 “Once a year Aaron must purify the altar by smearing its horns with blood from the offering made to purify the people from their sin. This will be a regular, annual event from generation to generation, for this is the Lord’s most holy altar.”
See every passage
- Genesis 22:13
- Exodus 27:2, 29:12, 30:2, 30:3, 30:10, 37:25, 37:26, 38:2
- Leviticus 4:7, 4:18, 4:25, 4:30, 4:34, 8:15, 9:9, 16:18
- Deuteronomy 33:17
- Joshua 6:5
- 1 Samuel 2:1, 2:10, 16:1, 16:13
- 2 Samuel 22:3
- 1 Kings 1:39, 1:50, 1:51, 2:28, 22:11
- 1 Chronicles 25:5
- 2 Chronicles 18:10
- Job 16:15
- Psalms 18:2, 22:21, 75:4, 75:5, 75:10, 89:17, 89:24, 92:10, 112:9, 118:27, 132:17, 148:14
- Isaiah 5:1
- Jeremiah 17:1, 48:25
- Lamentations 2:3, 2:17
- Ezekiel 27:15, 29:21, 34:21, 43:15, 43:20
- Daniel 8:3, 8:5, 8:6, 8:7, 8:8, 8:9, 8:20, 8:21
- Amos 3:14, 6:13
- Micah 4:13
- Habakkuk 3:4
- Zechariah 1:18, 1:19, 1:21
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).