Strong’s H7167 · Hebrew

קָרַע
qâraʻ
kaw-rah'

Definition

to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • cut out
  • rend
  • surely
  • tear

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.