Ice
קֶ֫רַחStrong’s H7140qerach (qe-rach)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qerach is the Hebrew word usually translated “ice”, “frost” and “ice his”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
Meaning
- Frost, ice, ice crystalfrost (of night) · ice
How it's translated
- ice 2
- and frost 1
- the ice 1
- ice his 1
- and to the frost 1
- frost 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
- Job 37:10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
- Psalms 147:17He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
- Jeremiah 36:30Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
- Ezekiel 1:22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רַח qerach · ice
1) frost, ice, ice crystal 1a) frost (of night) 1b) ice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ICE, noun
- Water or other fluid congealed, or in a solid state; a solid, transparent, brittle substance, formed by the congelation of a fluid, by means of the abstraction of the heat necessary to preserve its fluidity, or to use language, congealed by cold.
- Concreted sugar.
All definitions and other forms of “ice”
ICE, verb transitive
To cover with ice; to convert into ice
- To cover with concreted sugar; to frost.
- To chill; to freeze.
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.