# כָּרָה (karah)

Israeli respelling: ka-rah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3738. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open

King James renderings: dig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/karah-h3738

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 26:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 the…
- [Exodus 21:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wilderne…
- [2 Chronicles 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wit…
- [Job 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/27) — Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- [Job 41:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/6) — Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
- [Psalms 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/15) — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- [Psalms 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/16) — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- [Psalms 40:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 them…
- [Psalms 94:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/85) — The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
- [Proverbs 16:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/27) — An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- [Proverbs 26:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/27) — Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
- [Jeremiah 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Jeremiah 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 snar…