קְרָא Partridge
Every verse in which this word stands — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The korei — hunted on the mountains, as David says to Shaul; brooding what it did not lay in Yirmiyahu's proverb. Named, the tradition says, for its call; the bare letters are everywhere else the verb 'to call.'
וְעַתָּה אַל־יִפֹּל דָּֽמִי אַרְצָה מִנֶּגֶד פְּנֵי יְהוָה כִּֽי־יָצָא מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל לְבַקֵּשׁ אֶת־פַּרְעֹשׁ אֶחָד כַּאֲשֶׁר יִרְדֹּף הַקֹּרֵא בֶּהָרִֽים
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.’
קֹרֵא דָגַר וְלֹא יָלָד עֹשֶׂה עֹשֶׁר וְלֹא בְמִשְׁפָּט בַּחֲצִי ימו יַעַזְבֶנּוּ וּבְאַחֲרִיתוֹ יִהְיֶה נָבָֽל
As the partridge that broodeth over young which she hath not brought forth, So is he that getteth riches, and not by right; In the midst of his days he shall leave them, And at his end he shall be a fool.
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for partridge?
Partridge in Hebrew is קרא, with a gematria of 301 in the standard method.
How many times is the partridge mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 2 times in the Tanakh, first at 1 Samuel 26:20.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters קרא stand 88 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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