Strong's Hebrew · H3738
כָּרָה
kârâh · kaw-raw'
Definitionproperly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagedig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.
Occurrences16 in the KJV · 16 verses
כָּרָה in Scripture
Genesis 26:25
And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac' s servants digged a well.
Genesis 50:5
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
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;
Numbers 21:18
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:
2 Chronicles 16:14
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.
Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 41:6
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Psalms 7:15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves . Selah.
Psalms 94:13
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Psalms 119:85
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
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