Bible word study

Qeren (Strong’s H7161): Meaning in the Bible

Qeren (קֶרֶן) is the Hebrew word numbered H7161 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a horn (as projecting); by implication, a flask, cornet; by resemblance. an elephant's tooth (i.e. ivory), a corner (of the altar), a peak (of a mountain), a ray (of light); figuratively, power. In the King James Bible it is translated horn..

• Original wordקֶרֶן
• Transliterationqeren
• Pronunciationkeh'-ren
• Part of speechproper noun (feminine) (n-f n-pr-loc)
• Strong’s numberH7161
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H7160;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Qeren appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Qeren (H7161) stands behind 76 English renderings in 69 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (13), Exodus (10), Daniel (9).

How the King James Bible renders Qeren, by count

• horns47 of 76 (62 percent)
• horn28 of 76 (37 percent)
• hill1 of 76 (1 percent)

Three places to read Qeren

• Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
• 2 Samuel 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
• Jeremiah 48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Qeren in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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