3741. karah
Lexicon
karah: To dig, to excavate, to make a pit

Original Word: כָּרָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: karah
Pronunciation: kah-RAH
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-raw')
KJV: cottage
NASB: caves
Word Origin: [feminine of H3733 (כַּר - Ram)]

1. a meadow

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
cottage

Feminine of kar; a meadow -- cottage.

see HEBREW kar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from karah
Definition
a cistern, well
NASB Translation
caves (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[כָּרָה] noun feminine cistern (or well), only plural construct In נְוֺת כְּרֹת רֹעִים Zephaniah 2:6 pastures of (= with) wells of shepherds, but text dubious; ׳כ a gloss according to Köii. 176, (§ 94 a) Anm.; ᵐ5. κρήτὴ We (כֶרת נות רעים והיתה as ᵐ5. kereth = Philistia; see further כְּרֵתִי; BöhmeZAW vii. 1887, 212 views כְּרֹת, plausibly, as erroneous variant of preceding נְוֺת, so Schwib. x. 1890, 185, 186; Rosthstein in KauAT.

כְּרֹת Zephaniah 2:6 see [ כָּרָה] below I. כרה.



Forms and Transliterations
כְּרֹ֥ת כרת kə·rōṯ keRot kərōṯ
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Englishman's Concordance
Zephaniah 2:6
HEB: הַיָּ֗ם נְוֹ֛ת כְּרֹ֥ת רֹעִ֖ים וְגִדְר֥וֹת
NAS: will be pastures, [With] caves for shepherds
KJV: shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds,
INT: and the sea will be pastures caves shepherds and folds

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 3741
1 Occurrence


kə·rōṯ — 1 Occ.

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