Quick Definition
to tear
Strong's Definition
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.
TWOT Reference: 2074
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָרַע (qa.ra) — to tear. 1) to tear, tear in pieces 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tear, rend 1a2) to tear away or out 1a3) to tear, rend asunder 1a3a) to make wide or large (of eyes) 1a3b) to rend open (of heavens) 1a4) to tear, rend (of wild beasts) 1b) (Niphal) to be rent, be split asunder
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · קְרָעִים
Non-Whole | verb qal, verb nif | ≠ תפר
to tear, to rend, to cut, to rip, to split = causative action by which humans or animals rip apart the human body or an inanimate object, either in part of entirely; usually with their hands
GEN 37:29 · GEN 37:34 · GEN 44:13 · EXO 28:32 · EXO 39:23 · NUM 14:6 · JOS 7:6 · JDG 11:35 · 1SA 4:12 · 1SA 15:27 · 2SA 1:2 · 2SA 1:11 · 2SA 3:31 · 2SA 13:19 · 2SA 13:31 · 2SA 13:31 · 2SA 15:32 · 1KI 13:3 · 1KI 13:5 · 1KI 21:27 · 2KI 2:12 · 2KI 5:7 · 2KI 5:8 · 2KI 5:8 · 2KI 6:30 · 2KI 11:14 · 2KI 18:37 · 2KI 19:1 · 2KI 22:11 · 2KI 22:19 · 2CH 23:13 · 2CH 34:19 · 2CH 34:27 · EZR 9:3 · EZR 9:5 · EST 4:1 · JOB 1:20 · JOB 2:12 · PSA 35:15 · ECC 3:7 · ISA 36:22 · ISA 37:1 · ISA 63:19 · JER 22:14 · JER 36:23 · JER 36:24 · JER 41:5 · HOS 13:8 · JOL 2:13
Non-Whole | verb qal
to tear away, to tear off = causative action by which humans remove an object that was attached to something else, usually in a violent way ◄ often compared to the act of tearing away a piece of cloth
LEV 13:56 · 1SA 15:28 · 1SA 28:17 · 1KI 11:11 · 1KI 11:11 · 1KI 11:12 · 1KI 11:13 · 1KI 11:31 · 1KI 14:8 · 2KI 17:21 · EZK 13:20 · EZK 13:21
Non-Whole | verb qal
to tear into pieces = causative action by which humans tear an object into pieces
Large | verb qal
Collocation: קרע עֵנַיִם
to enlarge = causative action by which humans make their eyes look larger than they actually are; ► in order to enhance their beauty
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
קָרַע 63 vb. tear Qal tear, rend
usu. (39 t.) of rending garment
tear away or out
tear away sovereignty (under fig. of garment)
tear, rend asunder book
= make wide, large
rend open heavens, and descend
tear, rend, of wild beasts
Niph. be rent, of garments; be rent, split asunder, of altar
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