H3738 כָּרָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 16 KJV occurrences
כָּרָה
kârâh · kaw-raw'
Definition
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
KJV Renderings
dig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 16)
- Genesis 26:25And 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.
- Exodus 21:33¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
- 2 Chronicles 16:14And 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.
- Psalms 7:15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
- Psalms 94:13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
- Proverbs 16:27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Jeremiah 18:20Shall 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.