Strong’s H7140 · Hebrew
קֶרַח
qerach · keh'-rakh
Origin or קֹרַח; from קָרַח (H7139);
Meaning ice (as if bald, i.e. smooth); hence, hail; by resemblance, rock crystal
In the King James Version crystal, frost, ice.
In 7 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
- Job 6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
- Job 37:10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
- Psalms 147:17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- Jeremiah 36:30Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
- Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
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.