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Joshua 7:6
“And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7167 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּקְרַ֨ע — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 63 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 37:29Genesis 37:34Genesis 44:13Exodus 28:32Exodus 39:23
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read קָרַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.