Strong H6982קוֹרָה
beam
- Transliteration
- qôrâh qôrâh
- Pronunciation
- {ko-raw'} ko-raw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From H6979; a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication a roof: - {beam} roof.
Detailed definition
rafter, beam
In the Bible
Strong H6982 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- beam4
- roof1
First verses
- Genesis 19:8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
- 2 Kings 6:2Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
- 2 Kings 6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
- Song of Songs 1:17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.