Strong’s H7124 · Hebrew
קֹרֵא
qôrêʼ · ko-ray'
Origin properly, active participle of קָרָא (H7121);
Meaning a caller, i.e. partridge (from its cry)
In the King James Version partridge. See also קוֹרֵא (H6981).
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 26:20Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.