כְּרִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3747

Cherith — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Cherith tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּרִית²: n.pr. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr. the brook where Elijah was hidden 1 K 17:3, 5, identif. dub.; acc. RobBR ii. p. 288 Wady el-Kelt, near Jericho; acc. Buhl Handw. 12 Wady ʿAjlun, E. of Jordan, yet v. BuhlG. 121.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kerith (2).

In the verses

1 Kings 17:3 · tree →

לֵ֣ךְ מִזֶּ֔ה וּפָנִ֥יתָ לְּךָ֖ קֵ֑דְמָה וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

Word for word: go from here and you.will.turn (for yourself eastward and you.will.hide.yourself at the.wadi of.Kerith which [is].on the.face of the.Jordan

JPS 1917: 'Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 17:5 · tree →

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיַּ֖עַשׂ כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֗לֶךְ וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

Word for word: and he.went and he.did according to.the.word of.Yahweh and he.went and he.dwelt at the.wadi of.Kerith which [is].on the.face of the.Jordan

JPS 1917: So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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