Bald spot
קׇרְחָהStrong’s H7144qorchah (qor-chah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qorchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “baldness” and “baldness your”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”
Meaning
- Baldness, bald
How it's translated
- baldness 9
- and for baldness 1
- baldness your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Amos 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Isaiah 3:24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
- Isaiah 15:2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
- Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Jeremiah 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
- Jeremiah 48:37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Hebrew dictionary
קׇרְחָה qorchah · bald spot
baldness, bald
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “baldness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BALD'NESS, noun
Want of hair on the top and back of the head; loss of hair; meanness or inelegance of writing; want of ornament.
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.