Crevice
נְקָרָהStrong’s H5366neqarah (ne-qa-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neqarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cleft of” and “crevices of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:”
Meaning
- Hole, crevice
How it's translated
- in cleft of 1
- in crevices of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נְקָרָה neqarah · crevice
hole, crevice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crevice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CREVICE, noun
[Latin, to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.]
A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.
All definitions and other forms of “crevice”
CREVICE, verb transitive
To crack; to flaw.
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.