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כָּרָה S 3738, 3739, 3741 TWOT 1033, 1033a, 1034 GK 4125, 4126, 4127, 4128, 4129 vb. dig

( NH id.; Aramaic כְּרָא , Ethiopic ˜˜˜ ( karaya ) Arabic كَرَا ( karā ) ( c. و ( w ) and especially ى ( y ), Dozy ii. 461); Syriac ܟܪܳܐ ( kro ) is be short, cut off (i.e. rounded off ?), Arabic كُرَةٌ ( kuratun ) ball; å כְּרֵי heap Dalm Gr 109 ; Syriac ܟܰܪܝܳܐ ( karyo ), Mish. כרי id.; Assyrian karê , large vessels for holding corn, etc., Dl HWB 353, cf. kirû ( dub. ) Wkl TelAm. Vocab. ; Ba ZMG 1887, 615 conjectures be round as orig. meaning, and comp. Arabic السَّاقُ كَرِيَتِ ( ˒s-sāqu kariyati ) the leg is round ) ;— Qal Pf. 3 ms. כָּרָה 2 Ch 16:14 ψ 7:16 ; 2 ms. כָּרִיתָ ψ 40:7 ; 1 s. כָּרִיתִי Gn 50: 5; 3 pl. כָּרוּ Je 18:20 + 3 times; sf. כָּרוּהָ Nu 21:1 8; Impf. 3 ms. יִכְרֶה Ex 21:3 3; 3 mpl. וַיִּכְרוּ Gn 26:2 5; Pt. כֹּרֶה Pr 16:2 7; 26:27 ;— dig a grave, קֶבֶר Gn 50:5
( J ), cf. 2 Ch 16:1 4; a well, בְּאֵר Gn 26:25 ( J ), Nu 21:18 (song in JE); a pit, בֹּור

Ex 21:33 ; fig. of plotting against others ψ 7:16 ; so sq. שׁוּחָה Je 18:2 0, 22 , sq. שִׁיחָה ψ 57:7 ; 119:85 ; sq. שַ˜חַת Pr 26:2 7; hence כֹּרֶה רָעָה Pr 16:27 one digging a calamity; אָזְנַיִם כ׳ לִי ψ 40:7 ears hast thou dug (with allusion to the cavity of the ear) for me , thou hast given me the means of hearing and obeying thy will.—On ψ 22:17 v. II. כּוּר . Niph. Impf. 3 ms. עַד יִכָּרֶה שַׁחַת ψ 94:13 until the pit be digged for the wicked, fig. of judgment.

[ כָּרָה S 3738, 3739, 3741 TWOT 1033, 1033a, 1034 GK 4125, 4126, 4127, 4128, 4129 ] n.f. cistern (or well ), only pl. cstr. in נְוֹת כְּרֹת רֹעִים Zp 2:6 pastures of ( = with) wells of shepherds , but text dub. ; כ׳ a gloss according to ii. 176, (§ 94 a) Anm. ; Ö κρήτη ; We ( כרת נות רעים והיתה , as Ö ) kereth = Philistia; v. further כְּרֵתִי ; Böhme ZAW vii. 1887, 212 views כְּרֹת , plausibly, as erron. variant of preceding נְוֹת , so Schwally ib. x. 1890, 185, 186 ; Rothstein in Kau AT.

[ מִכְרֶה S 4379 TWOT 1033b GK 4838 ] n.m. pit (?), only cstr. מִכְרֵה־מֶלַח Zp 2:9 salt-pit (but not certain).


Dozy R. Dozy, (usually) Supple. aux Dict. Arabes. Dalm G. Dalman.

Gr H. Grätz. Ba J. Barth. E. König. Kau E, Kautzsch, Die Heiligen Schriften d. Alten Testaments, ed. au.

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