{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7167",
  "lemma": "קָרַע",
  "transliteration": "qâraʻ",
  "definition": "to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)",
  "kjv": "cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.",
  "occurrences": 63,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "קָרַע 63 vb. tear",
    "Qal tear, rend",
    "a. usu. (39 t.) of rending garment",
    "b. tear away or out",
    "2. tear away sovereignty (under fig. of garment)",
    "3. tear, rend asunder",
    "a. book",
    "b. = make wide, large",
    "c. rend open heavens, and descend",
    "4. tear, rend, of wild beasts",
    "Niph. be rent, of garments; be rent, split asunder, of altar"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:29",
      "text": "Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:34",
      "text": "Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 44:13",
      "text": "Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 28:32",
      "text": "It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 39:23",
      "text": "The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 13:56",
      "text": "If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=56"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 14:6",
      "text": "Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 7:6",
      "text": "Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 11:35",
      "text": "When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/11?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 4:12",
      "text": "A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=12"
    }
  ],
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