Qârachath — H7146

Definition

feminine noun

a bald spot (on the back of the head); figuratively, a threadbare spot (on the back side of the cloth)

1. baldness of head, back baldness, bald spot

Usually translated as

bald head, bare within

Origin

from H7139

• Derived from Qârach (H7139)

Occurrences

Qârachath occurs 4 times in 3 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (3)

• Leviticus 13:42 — And if there be in the bald head (בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙), or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
• Leviticus 13:42 — And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head (בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ), or his bald forehead.
• Leviticus 13:43 — Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head (בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ), or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
• Leviticus 13:55 — And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within (בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ) or without.