Rags
קֶ֫רַעStrong’s H7168qera (qe-ra)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qera is the Hebrew word usually translated “pieces” and “rags”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:”
Meaning
- Rag, torn pieces of garment or fabric
How it's translated
- pieces 3
- and rags 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 11:31And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
- 2 Kings 2:12And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
- Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רַע qera · rags
rag, torn pieces of garment or fabric
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rag” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAG, noun
[Gr. a torn garment; tear; a rupture, a rock, a crag; to tear asunder.]
- Any piece of cloth torn from the rest; a tattered cloth, torn or worn till its texture is destroyed.
- Garments worn out; proverbially, mean dress.“Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags” Proverbs 23:21
- A fragment of dress.
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.