כָּרָה
kara · buy, trade for
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3739 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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kara (כָּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “buy, trade for”.
Buy, acquire by a bargain.
How to say it
ka·ra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To get something by paying for it.
- To give a great feast.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- He prepared ×1
- I bought her ×1
- you shall acquire ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 2:6
Food you shall buy from them for silver, and eat; and also water you shall acquire from them for silver, and drink.’
- 2 Kings 6:23
He prepared for them a great feast, and they ate and drank, and he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram did not come again into the land of Israel.
- Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a lethech of barley.