3738 - karah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: כָּרָה
Transliteration: karah
Definition (short): dig
Definition (full): to dig, to plot, to bore, open

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open -- dig, X make (a banquet), open.
KJV: 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.
NASB: So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
KJV: 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.
NASB: 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"
KJV: 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;
NASB: "If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
KJV: 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:
NASB: "The well, which the leaders sank, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,
KJV: And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
NASB: So he prepared a great feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.