STRONGS NUMBER H3738

H3738. karah

[כאר‎] see II. כור‎.

II. [כוּר‎] verb meaning dubious, perhaps bore, or dig, or hew (Dl^{Prol. 121} compare Assyrian kâru, fell trees (Dl^{HWB 324})) — only

Qal Perfect3plural כארו‎ = כָּארוּ‎ for כָּרוּ‎ Psalm 22:17 (כָּאֲרִי ᵑ0‎, see אֲרִי‎) they have bored (digged, hewn) my hands and my feet (si vera lectio; compare Vrss De Pe Che Bae and others; some, however, deriving from כרה‎ in this sense); hence perhaps following.

I. כָּרָה‎ verb dig (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כְּרָא‎, Ethiopic Arabic (with and especially Dozy^{ii. 461}); Syriac is be short, cut off (i.e. rounded off ?), Arabic ball; ᵑ7‎. כְּרֵי‎ heap Dalm^{Gr. 109}; Syriac Mishna כרי‎ id.; Assyrian karê large vessels for holding corn, etc., Dl^{HWB 353}, compare kirû (dubious) Wkl^{Tel Am. Vocab}.; Ba^{ZMG 1887, 615} conjectures be round as orig √ meaning, and compare Arabic the leg is round); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular כָּרָה‎2 Chronicles 16:14; Psalm 7:16; 2masculine singular כָּרִיתָ‎ 40:7; 1singular בָּרִיתִי‎ Genesis 50:5; 3plural כָּרוּ‎ Jeremiah 18:20 3t.; sf כָּרוּהָ‎ Numbers 21:18; Imperfect3masculine singular יִכְרֶה‎ Exodus 21:33; 3masculine plural וַיִּכְרוּ‎ Genesis 26:25; Participle כֹּרֶה‎ Proverbs 16:27; 26:27; — dig a grave, קֶבֶר‎ Genesis 50:5 (J), compare 2 Chronicles 16:14; a well, בְּאֵר‎ Genesis 26:25 (J), Numbers 21:18 (song in J E); a pit, בּוֺר‎ Exodus 21:33; figurative of plotting against others Psalm 7:16; so followed by שׁוּחָה‎ Jeremiah 18:20, 22, followed by שִׁיחָה‎ Jer 57:7; Jer 119:85; followed by שַׁחַת‎ Proverbs 26:27; hence רָעָה כֹּרֶה‎ 16:27 one digging a calamity; כ ׳אָזְנַיִם לִי‎ Psalm 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 22:17 verse. II.כּוּר‎.

Niph`al Imperfect3masculine singular שַׁהַּת יִכָּרֶה עַד‎ Psalm 94:13 until the pit be digged for the wicked, figurative of judgment.