Lexical Definition

‎קוֹרָה‎ qôwrâh (ko-raw') beam ^H:N-F
or קֹרָה qôrâh (ko-raw'); from ‎קוּר‎

beam, roof.

• a rafter (forming trenches as it were)
• by implication, a roof

1) rafter, beam

See Greek: δοκός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קוֺרָה‎ noun feminine rafter, beam (properly a thing meeting, fitting into, another); — suffix ‎קֹרָתִי‎ Gen 19:8 (J) = my roof-tree; plural ‎קֹרוֺת‎ rafters, absolute 2Chr 3:7, construct || 1Kgs 6:15b (reading ‎קוֺרוֺת הַסִּפֻּן‎ ᵐ5 Th Kit Benz, for ᵑ0 ‎קִירוֺת‎), + 1Kgs 7:7b (reading ‎הַקּוֺרוֺת‎ for ‎הַקַּרְקָ֑ע‎, see ‎׳‎‎ק‎); Song 1:17 (|| ‎רחיטנו‎ Kt, ‎רָהִיטֵנוּ‎ Qr); more gen beam, singular absolute ‎קוֺרָה‎ 2Kgs 6:2; 2Kgs 6:5.

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