Partridge
קֹרֵאStrong’s H7124qore (qo-re)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qore is the Hebrew word usually translated “partridge”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.”
Meaning
- Partridge
How it's translated
- the partridge 1
- a partridge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
קֹרֵא qore · partridge
partridge
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “partridge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ARTRIDGE, noun
[Latin perdix.]
A wild fowl of the genus Tatrao. Latham arranges the partridge and quail in a genus under the name of Perdix, and assigns the grous to the genus Tetrao. The partridge is esteemed a great delicacy at the table.
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.