Cold
קָרָהStrong’s H7135qarah (qa-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “coldness” and “coldness his”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.”
Meaning
- Cold
How it's translated
- coldness 3
- in the coldness 1
- coldness his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Nahum 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 37:9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- Psalms 147:17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- Proverbs 25:20As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
- Nahum 3:17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Hebrew dictionary
קָרָה qarah · cold
cold
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLD, adjective
- Not warm or hot; gelid, frigid; a relative term.
- Having the sensation of cold; chill; shivering, or inclined to shiver; as, I am cold
- Having cold qualities; as a cold plant.
- Frigid; wanting passion, zeal ro ardor; indifferent; unconcerned; not animated, or easily excited into action; as a cold spectator; a cold Christian; a cold lover, or friend; a cold temper.“Thou art neither cold nor hot” Revelation 3:15
All definitions and other forms of “cold”
- Not moving; unaffecting; not animated; not able to excite feeling; spiritless; as a cold discourse; a cold jest.
- Reserved; coy; not affectionate, cordial or friendly; indicating indifference; as a cold look; a cold return of civilities; a cold reception.
- Not heated by sensual desire.
- Not hasty; not violent.
- Not affecting the scent strongly.
- Not having the scent strongly affected.
COLD, noun
- The sensation produced in animal bodies by the escape of heat, and the consequent contraction of the fine vessels.
- A shivering; the effect of the contraction of the fine vessels of the body; chilliness, or chillness.
- A disease; indisposition occasioned by cold; catarrh.
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.