# H3738 כָּרָה

כָּרָה (kârâh), Strong’s H3738: properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open KJV: dig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.. Occurs 17 times.

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*kârâh* — properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open

KJV: dig, [idiom] make (a banquet), open.

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [כוּר] vb. mng. dub., perh. bore, or dig, or hew—only Qal ψ 22:17
- כָּרָה vb
- כָּרָה vb. dig
- Qal dig a grave; a well; a pit
- Niph. until the pit be digged of the wicked, fig. of judgment.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=25) — He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
- [Genesis 50:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=5) — ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…
- [Exodus 21:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=33) — “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- [Numbers 21:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=18) — the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the…
- [Jeremiah 18:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/18?v=20) — Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good…
- [Jeremiah 18:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/18?v=22) — Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and…
- [Psalms 7:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/7?v=16) — He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
- [Psalms 22:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/22?v=17) — For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
- [Psalms 40:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/40?v=7) — Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin…
- [Psalms 57:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/57?v=7) — They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it…