To tear
קָרַעStrong’s H7167qara (qa-ra)
Appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qara is the Hebrew word usually translated “tore”, “torn” and “torn of”. It appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.”
Meaning
- To tear, tear in pieces(Qal) · (Niphal) to be rent, be split asunder
How it's translated
- and he tore 14
- they tore 3
- torn 3
- torn of 3
- and they tore 2
- and he will tear 2
- and he tore them 2
- i will tear away 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 10
- 1 Kings 9
- 2 Samuel 6
- Jeremiah 5
- 1 Samuel 4
- Genesis 3
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 44:13Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
- Exodus 28:32And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
- Exodus 39:23And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
- Leviticus 13:56And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
- Numbers 14:6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
All 60 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קָרַע qara · to tear
1) to tear, tear in pieces 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tear, rend 1a2) to tear away or out 1a3) to tear, rend asunder 1a3a) to make wide or large (of eyes) 1a3b) to rend open (of heavens) 1a4) to tear, rend (of wild beasts) 1b) (Niphal) to be rent, be split asunder
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
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.