H3738: כָּרָה
kârâh · pronounced kaw-raw' · “to dig”
Definition
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
KJV translates it as: dig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to dig
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3738 is translated
- they have dug ×3
- they dug ×2
- i dug ×1
- he will dig ×1
- it ×1
- he had dug ×1
- he digs ×1
- you dug ×1
- it will be dug ×1
- is digging up ×1
- one who digs ×1
Bible verses with H3738 (kârâh)
Kârâh appears in 14 verses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Proverbs 26:27
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
- Jeremiah 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.
- Jeremiah 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.