Cool
מְקֵרָהStrong’s H4747meqerah (me-qe-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meqerah is the Hebrew word usually translated “coolness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.”
Meaning
- Coolness, cooling
How it's translated
- the coolness 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מְקֵרָה meqerah · cool
coolness, cooling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cool” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COOL, adjective
[G., cold, to cool; chilliness; to blow strong.]
- Moderately cold; being of a temperature between hot and cold; as cool air; cool water.
- Not ardent or zealous; not angry; not fond; not excited by passion of any kind; indifferent; as a cool friend; a cool temper; a cool lover.
- Not retaining heat; light; as a cool dress.
All definitions and other forms of “cool”
COOL, noun
A moderate state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; as the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
COOL, verb transitive
- To allay heat; to make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of a substance; as, ice wools water.“Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue” Luke 16:24
- To moderate excitement of temper; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm, as anger; to abate, as love; to moderate, as desire, zeal or ardor; to render indifferent.
COOL, verb intransitive
- To become less hot; to lose heat.
- To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become less ardent, angry, zealous, or affectionate; to become more moderate.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.