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H3738Hebrew

כָּרָה

Definition and meaning

karah (kaw-raw') v. 1. (properly) to dig 2. (figuratively) to plot 3. (generally) to bore or open [a primitive root] KJV: dig, X make (a banquet), open.

Tagged KJV passages

16 matching verses - 16.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Genesis 26:25

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.

Matched English: diggedGenesis 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.

Matched English: diggedExodus 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;

Matched English: digNumbers 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:

Matched English: digged2 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.

Matched English: madeJob 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Matched English: digPsalms 7:15

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Matched English: madePsalms 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Matched English: piercedPsalms 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Matched English: openedPsalms 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.

Matched English: diggedPsalms 94:13

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Matched English: diggedPsalms 119:85

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Matched English: diggedProverbs 16:27

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Matched English: upProverbs 26:27

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Matched English: diggethJeremiah 18:20

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.

Matched English: diggedJeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Matched English: digged