The corpus record — Hebrew

קָרֵ֣א

qera

‏קרא‎ Ju 15)9 (explained as “the spring which is calling”, > 1] ‏

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 11 · 0.36/10k

Senses

1. קרא

‏קרא‎ Ju 15)9 (explained as “the spring which is calling”, > 1] ‏

2. קְרָא

3. קְרָא

call, read out, aloud

4. קְרָא

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

Attestations

קָרֵ֣א Daniel 3:4 (BHS)
קָרֵ֨א Daniel 4:11 (BHS)
קָרֵ֤א Daniel 5:7 (BHS)
יִקְרֵ֞ה Daniel 5:7 (BHS)
לְ/מִקְרֵ֔א Daniel 5:8 (BHS)
יִתְקְרֵ֖י Daniel 5:12 (BHS)

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Koehler-Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) scan p. 465; entry #1991 Review: Under source audit
Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 615; entry #15227 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.