kara · crouch, bow down

What it means

kara (כָּרַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crouch, bow down”.

Crouch, kneel; bow down; sink.

How to say it

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

1. To bend the body or knees toward the ground, in prayer or before someone.
2. To be struck down by grief or by another's force.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• he sank ×4
• knelt ×4
• bow down ×3
• You have brought me very low ×2
• bends ×2
• crouch ×2
• kneel ×2
• kneeling ×2
• will bend ×2
• He crouched ×1
• others ×12

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×7
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Esther×3
• Job×3
• Psalms×7
• Isaiah×5

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Numbers 24:9

  He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

• Judges 5:27

  Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell, destroyed.

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 7:6

  The number of those who lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water.

• Judges 11:35

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who bring me ruin. I have opened my mouth to YHWH, and I cannot turn back.”

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• 2 Samuel 22:40

  You girded me with strength for battle; you made bow down beneath me those who rise against me.

• 1 Kings 8:54

  And it happened, when Solomon finished praying to YHWH all this prayer and supplication, that he rose from before the altar of YHWH, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread out toward the heavens.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

• 2 Kings 1:13

  Again he sent a third commander of fifty with his fifty. The third commander of fifty went up and came and knelt on his knees before Elijah and pleaded with him and spoke to him, “Man of Elohim, please, let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes.

• 2 Kings 9:24

  Jehu filled his hand with the bow and struck Joram between his arms, and the arrow came out from his heart, and he sank down in his chariot.

• 2 Chronicles 7:3

  All the sons of Israel were watching the fire come down and the glory of YHWH upon the house, and they knelt with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and bowed down and gave thanks to YHWH, “For he is good, for his loyal love is forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:29

  When they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him knelt and bowed down.

• Ezra 9:5

  And at the evening offering I rose from my affliction, and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to YHWH my Elohim,

• Esther 3:2

  And all the king’s servants who were in the gate of the king knelt and bowed down to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him; but Mordecai did not kneel nor bow down.

• Esther 3:5

  And Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling or bowing down to him, and Haman was filled with fury.

• Job 4:4

  The one who stumbled your words have raised up, and buckling knees you have made firm.

• Job 31:10

  let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her.

• Job 39:3

  They crouch, they bring forth their young; they cast off their pains.

• Psalms 17:13

  Rise up, YHWH; go out to meet him, make him bend the knee; bring to safety my soul from the wicked with your sword,

• Psalms 18:39

  You girded me with strength for war; you made bend the knee beneath me those who rise against me.

• Psalms 20:8

  They have bent the knee and fallen, but we have risen and stand firm.

• Psalms 22:29

  They have eaten and bowed down, all the prosperous of the earth; before him will bend the knee all who go down to the dust, and he who did not keep alive his soul.

• Psalms 72:9

  Before him the desert dwellers will kneel, and his enemies will lick the dust.

• Psalms 78:31

  when the anger of Elohim rose against them, and he killed among their sturdiest, and the young men of Israel he brought low.

• Psalms 95:6

  Come in, let us bow down and bend low; let us kneel before YHWH our Maker.

• Isaiah 10:4

  Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners, and among the slain they will fall. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 45:23

  By myself I have sworn; righteousness has gone out from my mouth, a word, and it will not return: that to me every knee will bend, every tongue will swear.

• Isaiah 46:1

  Bel bends, Nebo stoops; their idols are for the animals and for the livestock; the things you carried are loaded, a load for the weary beast.

• Isaiah 46:2

  They stoop, they bend together; they could not rescue the load, and they themselves have gone into captivity.

• Isaiah 65:12

  I will destine you to the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter; because I called, and you did not answer; I spoke, and you did not listen; and you did what was evil in my eyes, and you chose what I did not delight in.”

And 4 more times.