# H7167 קָרַע

קָרַע (qâraʻ), Strong’s H7167: to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them) KJV: cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.. Occurs 63 times.

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*qâraʻ* — to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)

KJV: cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.

Occurs 63 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 37:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=29) — Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
- [Genesis 37:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=34) — Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- [Genesis 44:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=13) — Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.
- [Exodus 28:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=32) — 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…
- [Exodus 39:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=23) — 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…
- [Leviticus 13:56](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=56) — If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or…
- [Numbers 14:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=6) — Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
- [Joshua 7:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=6) — Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders…
- [Judges 11:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/11?v=35) — When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of…
- [1 Samuel 4:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=12) — 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.