קָרוֹב II, (קְרֵב Pa. 3) leader in prayer, hymnologist, reader. Lev. R. s. 30 קרוב ופייטן Ar. (ed., a. Pesik. Ul’ḳaḥ. p. 179ᵃ פייטן ודרשן) hymnologist and poet; Cant. R. to III, 6 קָרֵיבוֹי ופייטויי. Y. Ber. I, 3ᶜ bot. [read:] ר׳ … הוה סמיך לק׳ וכ׳ R. Z. (in his prayer of the section Modim) kept pace with the reader in order to bow simultaneously with him at the beginning and at the end. Lev. R. s. 19; Cant. R. to V, 11 ר׳ אלכסנדרי ק׳ R. A. the hymnologist.—[In liturgy קרובות (not קרובץ): the poetical insertions, on special occasions, in the Prayer of Benedictions.]