Hostility
קְרִיStrong’s H7147qeri (qe-ri)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeri is the Hebrew word usually translated “contrariness”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.”
Meaning
- Opposition, contrariness, encounter, contrary or hostile encounter
How it's translated
- in contrariness 4
- contrariness 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 7
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:41And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Hebrew dictionary
קְרִי qeri · hostility
opposition, contrariness, encounter, contrary or hostile encounter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hostility” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOSTIL'ITY, noun
[Latin hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy.]
- The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy.
- Private enmity; a sense less proper.
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.