קֶרֶן

n.f. Dn 7:8 horn (v. BH קרן);—abs. ק׳ Dn 7:8; emph. קַרְנָא 3:5 +; du. (often!) קַרְ֫נַיִן 7:7; emph. -נַיָּא 7:8 +;— instr. of music, Dn 3:5, 7, 10, 15. symbolic, in vision, 7:7, 8(×3), 11, 20(×2), 21, 24.

c. (b. h.; v. preced.) [joint, attachment; roundness, fulness,] horn. Y. Erub. I, 19ᵇ bot. זכרותו של ק׳, v. זַכְרוּת. R. Hash. III, 2 כל השופרות … ק׳ all shofars (horns) are fit for use on the New Year’s day, except that of a cow, because it is called ḳeren (and not shofar); והלא כל … ק׳ do not all shofars also go by the name of ḳeren? Ib. 26ᵃ; a. v. fr.—Keth. XIII, 2, v. צְבִי.—Esp. (sub. נזק) damage done by an animal’s horn, goring. B. Kam. 2ᵇ. Ib. 4ᵃ; a. fr.—Trnsf. horn, trump, wind instrument. Kel. XI, 7 ק׳ עגולה a round (wound) metal horn; contrad. to פשוטה a plain (straight) horn; Sabb. 47ᵃ; a. fr.—Du. קַרְנַיִם, קַרְנַיִים, קַרְנַיִין; pl. קְרָנִים, קְרָנִין, קְרָנוֹת. Tosef. Par. II (I), 2; Bekh. 44ᵃ. Par. II, 2 פרה שקַרְנֶיהָ וכ׳ a red cow whose horns and hoofs are black; Bekh. l. c. שקרנים וכ׳ (corr. acc.). Ḥull. 60ᵃ, a. e. שור … קְרָנָיו קודמות וכ׳ the ox which Adam sacrificed was born with his horns (full grown) in advance of his hoofs. Par. XII, 9 ק׳ של יוצאי דרכים the travellers’ drinking horns. Gen. R. s. 99 אלו תוקעי ק׳ וכ׳ these (the Levites) blow horns, and those (the Greeks) blow trumpets. Ib. זה בעל ק׳ וזה בעל ק׳ this one (Joseph) is described as endowed with horns (power, Deut. XXXIII, 17), and that one (Rome) is &c. (Dan. VII, 24). Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top כקַרְנֵי וכ׳, v. כִּילּוּיָא. Ib.; Yoma 77ᵇ קרני חגבים the antennæ of locusts; a. fr. any projection, point; a) beam, ray. —Pl. as ab. Ex. R. s. 47; Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 37 קרני ההוד the beams of glory, halo; a. e.—b) projecting staff or handle. Par. XII, 9, v. כְּלִיבָה. Lam. R. to I, 16 [read:] קרן גלוסקאן זו this point of the roll of white bread; a. e.—c) (with זוית or without) corner, v. זָוִית. Ber. 17ᵃ שתעמידנו בק׳ אורה … בק׳ חשכה that thou place us in the corner of light (position of honor), and not in the corner of obscurity. Men. 42ᵃ הטיל על הק׳ if one attaches the show-fringes exactly in the corner; a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ḥull. 31ᵃ, v. אִיזְמֵל. Macc. 12ᵃ תפש בקַרְנוֹתָיו took hold of the projections of the altar; a. fr.—יושבי קרנות those seated at street corners, v. יָשַׁב.—[Gen. R. s. 75, v. יָשַׁב a. קָרוֹן.] (cmp. כְּרַן) fulness, essence. Nidd. II, 6, v. כַּרְכּוֹם I.—Esp. principal, capital. B. Kam. IX, 7 משלם ק׳ וחומש וכ׳ must pay the principal (the full value of the stolen goods) and the fine of one-fifth, and bring a guilt-offering; a. v. fr.—Trnsf. the capital of reward or punishment laid aside for the hereafter. Peah I, 1; Tosef. ib. I, 2, sq., v. פֶּרִי; a. fr.—[ק׳ אפל, v. אָפִל II.]