BDB3878
[כאר] see II. כור .
Strong's Lexicon
H3738
H3738 — כָּרָה
Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | H3738 |
|---|---|
| Word: | כָּרָה |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | a primitive root |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Occurrences: | 17 |
| Transliteration: | karah |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | kaw-raw' |
| Meaning: | 1. (properly) to dig 2. (figuratively) to plot 3. (generally) to bore or open |
| KJV Renderings: | dig, X make (a banquet), open. |
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced
BDB3964
II. [כוּר] verb meaning dubious, perhaps bore, or dig , or hew (DlProl. 121 compare Assyrian kâru , fell trees (DlHWB 324 )) — only
Qal
Perfect 3 plural כארו = כָּארוּ for כָּרוּ
Ps 22:17 (
ᵑ0
כָּאֲרִי, see
אֲרִי
) they have bored (digged, hewn) my hands and my feet (si
vera lectio; compare
Vrss
De
Pe
Che
Bae and others; some, however, deriving from כרה in this
sense); hence perhaps following.
BDB4180
I. כָּרָה verb dig (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּרָא, Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 2630] Arabic [untranscribed source text 2631] (with [untranscribed source text 2632] and especially [untranscribed source text 2633] Dozyii. 461); Syriac [untranscribed source text 2634] is be short, cut off (i.e. rounded off ?), Arabic [untranscribed source text 2635] ball; ᵑ7 . כְּרֵי heap DalmGr. 109; Syriac [untranscribed source text 2636] Mishna כרי id.; Assyrian karê large vessels for holding corn, etc., DlHWB 353 , compare kirû (dubious) WklTel Am. Vocab .; BaZMG 1887, 615 conjectures be round as orig √ meaning, and compare Arabic [untranscribed source text 2637] [untranscribed source text 2638] the leg is round); —
Qal
Perfect 3 masculine singular כָּרָה
2Chr 16:14;
Ps 7:16 2 masculine
singular כָּרִיתָ
Ps 40:7 1 singular
בָּרִיתִי
Gen 50:5 3 plural
כָּרוּ
Jer 18:20 + 3
t.; sf כָּרוּהָ
Num 21:18
Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִכְרֶה
Exod 21:33 3
masculine plural וַיִּכְרוּ
Gen 26:25
Participle
כֹּרֶה
Prov 16:27;
Prov 26:27 —
dig a grave, קֶבֶר
Gen 50:5 (
J
), compare 2Chr 16:14 a well, בְּאֵר
Gen 26:25 (
J
), Num 21:18
(song in
J
E
); a pit, בּוֺר
Exod 21:33
figurative of plotting against others Ps 7:16 so followed by שׁוּחָה
Jer 18:20;
Jer 18:22,
followed by שִׁיחָה
Jer 57:7;
Jer 119:85
followed by שַׁחַת
Prov 26:27
hence כֹּרֶה רָעָה
Prov 16:27
one digging a calamity; לִי
׳
אָזְנַיִם כ
Ps 40:7 ears
hast thou dug (with allusion to the cavity of the ear) for me, thou
hast given me the means of hearing and obeying thy will. — On Ps 22:17 verse. II. כּוּר.
Niph`al
Imperfect 3 masculine singular עַד יִכָּרֶה שַׁהַּת
Ps 94:13
until the pit be digged for the wicked, figurative of judgment.
Other Resources
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke
Englishman's Hebrew Concordance
כרה (kah-rah’)
Numbers 21:18
- KJV: The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
- EHCC: the nobles of the ple digged it,
2 Chronicles 16:14
- KJV: And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.had made: Heb. had digged
- EHCC: sepule hres, which he made (marg.
2 Chronicles 119:85
- EHCC: Presa have di, pits
Jeremiah 18:20
- KJV: Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- EHCC: they have digged a pit for my soul.
Genesis 26:25
- KJV: And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
- EHCC: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
Hosea 3:2
- KJV: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:half…: Heb. lethech
- EHCC: S0 7 bought her to me
Proverbs 16:27
- KJV: An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.An…: Heb. A man of Belial
- EHCC: An un man diggeth up evils
Psalms 94:13
- KJV: That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
- EHCC: until the pit be digged