# H7121 קָרָא

קָרָא (qârâʼ), Strong’s H7121: to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications) KJV: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry…

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*qârâʼ* — to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

KJV: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be)…

Occurs 734 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קָרָא 724 vb. call, proclaim, read
- Qal
- a call, cry, utter a loud sound
- b call, cry
- a call unto some one
- b cry for help
- 3 proclaim
- a read aloud
- b read to oneself
- 5 summon
- 6 call = name
- Niph.
- 1 reflex.
- 2 pass. be called
- Pu. be called

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5) — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- [Genesis 1:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=8) — God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- [Genesis 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10) — God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…
- [Genesis 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=20) — The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there…
- [Genesis 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=23) — The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken…
- [Genesis 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=9) — The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
- [Genesis 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=20) — The man called his wife Havah because she would be the mother of all the living.
- [Genesis 4:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=17) — Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his…
- [Genesis 4:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=25) — Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child…