Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6982 - קוֹרָה qorah (a rafter)

Original Word:	קוֹרָה
Transliteration:	qorah
Definition:	a rafter, beam
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(ko-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

beam, roof

Or qorah {ko-raw'}; from quwr; a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication, a roof -- beam, roof.

see HEBREW quwr

Englishman's Concordance

1) rafter, beam
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6979
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2068d

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קוֺרָהnoun femininerafter, beam (properly a thing meeting, fitting into, another); — suffix קֹרָתִיGenesis 19:8 (J)=my roof-tree; plural קֹרוֺתrafters, absolute 2 Chronicles 3:7, construct "" 1 Kings 6:15b (reading קוֺרוֺת הַסִּמֻּןᵐ5 Th Kit Benz, for ᵑ0קִירוֺת), + 1 Kings 7:7b (reading הַקּוֺרוֺת for הַקַּרְקָ֑ע, see ׳ק); Songs 1:17 ("" רחיטנו Kt, רָהִיטֵנוּ Qr); more Gen beam, singular absolute קוֺרָה2 Kings 6:2,5.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6982. קוֹרָה (qorah) — 5 Occurrences

Genesis 19:8
HEB:בָּ֖אוּ בְּצֵ֥ל קֹרָתִֽי׃
NAS: under the shelter of my roof.
KJV: they under the shadow of my roof.
INT: have come the shelter of my roof

2 Kings 6:2
HEB:מִשָּׁם֙ אִ֚ישׁ קוֹרָ֣ה אֶחָ֔ת וְנַעֲשֶׂה־
NAS: from there a beam, and let us make
KJV: a beam, and let us make
INT: there and each A beam a make

2 Kings 6:5
HEB:הָֽאֶחָד֙ מַפִּ֣יל הַקּוֹרָ֔ה וְאֶת־ הַבַּרְזֶ֖ל
NAS: was felling a beam, the axe head
KJV: was felling a beam, the axe head
INT: one was felling A beam the axe fell

2 Chronicles 3:7
HEB:אֶת־ הַבַּ֜יִת הַקֹּר֧וֹת הַסִּפִּ֛ים וְקִֽירוֹתָ֥יו
NAS: with gold-- the beams, the thresholds
KJV: also the house, the beams, the posts,
INT: overlaid the house the beams the thresholds walls

Songs 1:17
HEB: קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֙ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים
NAS:The beams of our houses are cedars,
KJV:The beams of our house [are] cedar,
INT:the beams of our houses are cedars

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