Proclamation
קְרִיאָהStrong’s H7150qeriah (qe-ri-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qeriah is the Hebrew word usually translated “proclamation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.”
Meaning
- Proclamation, preaching
How it's translated
- the proclamation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קְרִיאָה qeriah · proclamation
proclamation, preaching
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “proclamation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROCLAMA'TION, noun
[Latin proclamatio, from proclamo.]
- Publication by authority; official notice given to the public.“King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah” 1 Kings 15:22
- In England, a declaration of the king's will, openly published.
- The declaration of any supreme magistrate publicly made known; as the proclamation of the governor appointing a day of thanksgiving.
- The paper containing an official notice to a people.
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.