Hebrew verb · H3739
כָּרָה
karahkaw-raw'
to trade; to feed
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kârâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3739is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3739
to purchase
The King James renders it: buy, prepare.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
karah is rendered "to trade; to feed". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to trade".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 2:6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
Deuteronomy 2:6תִּכְר֧וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Job.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to trade, and to feed.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to tradeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereDeuteronomy 2:6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’” |
| to feedStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he gave a feast1
- and I bought her1
- and you may bargain1
- will they bargain1
- you will buy1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּרַת | karath | to cut: cut | Uses288 |
| כָּרַע | kara | to bow | Uses36 |
| כָּרָה | karah | to dig | Uses14 |
| כָּרָע | kara | leg | Uses9 |
| כָּרֻתָה | karuthah | beam | Uses3 |
| כָּרִי | kari | Carite | Uses2 |
| כָּרַר | karar | to dance | Uses2 |
| כָּרָא | Kara | be distressed | Uses1 |
| כָּרָה | karah | hollow | Uses1 |
| כָּרוֹז | karoz | proclaimer | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וָאֶכְּרֶ֣הָ1
- וַיִּכְרֶ֨ה1
- וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ1
- יִכְר֣וּ1
- תִּכְר֧וּ1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vqu2mp1HC/Vqu2mp
- Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3fs1Hc/Vqw1cs/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
Deuteronomy
one use
You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
- תִּכְר֧וּtikhruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will buy
2 Kings
one use
So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.
- וַיִּכְרֶ֨הvaiyikhrehHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he gave a feast
Job
two uses
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
- וְ֝תִכְר֗וּvetikhruHC/Vqu2mptagged: and you may bargain
Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
- יִכְר֣וּyikhruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will they bargain
Hosea
one use
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
- וָאֶכְּרֶ֣הָvaekerehaHc/Vqw1cs/Sp3fstagged: and I bought her
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.