# H7140 קֶרַח

קֶרַח (qerach), Strong’s H7140: ice (as if bald, i.e. smooth); hence, hail; by resemblance, rock crystal KJV: crystal, frost, ice.. Occurs 7 times.

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*qerach* — ice (as if bald, i.e. smooth); hence, hail; by resemblance, rock crystal

KJV: crystal, frost, ice.

Derived from [קָרַח qârach](https://besorah.bible/word/H7139) (to depilate)

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- קֶ֫רַח n.m. frost, ice

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=40) — This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- [Jeremiah 36:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=30) — Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead…
- [Ezekiel 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/1?v=22) — Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like an awesome crystal to look at…
- [Psalms 147:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/147?v=17) — He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
- [Job 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/6?v=16) — which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
- [Job 37:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/37?v=10) — By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.
- [Job 38:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/38?v=29) — Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?