Beam
קוֹרָהStrong’s H6982qorah (qo-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “roof my”, “beam” and “beams”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.”
Meaning
- Rafter, beam
How it's translated
- roof my 1
- a beam 1
- the beam 1
- the beams 1
- beams of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Song of Solomon 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
- 2 Kings 6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
- Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
Hebrew dictionary
קוֹרָה qorah · beam
rafter, beam
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEAM, noun
[We see by the Gothic, that the word belongs to Class Bg. It properly signifies the stock or stem of a tree; that is, the fixed, firm part.]
- The largest, or a principal piece in a building, that lies across the walls, and serves to support the principal rafters.
- Any large piece of timber, long in proportion to its thickness, and squared, or hewed for use.
- The part of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended; sometimes used for the whole apparatus for weighing.
- The part on the head of a stag, which bears the antlers, royals and tops.
All definitions
- The pole of a carriage, which runs between the horses.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; and this name is given also to the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is wove.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- In ships, a great main cross timber, which holds the sides of a ship from falling together.
- The main piece of a plow, in which the plow-tails are fixed, and by which it is drawn.
- beam compass, an instrument consisting of a square wooden or brass beam having sliding sockets, that carry steel or pencil points; used for describing large circles, and in large projections for drawing the furniture on wall-dials.
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.