kara · dig

What it means

kara (כָּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dig”.

As a well or a pit; figuratively, plot against someone.

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 dig a well or a grave.
2. To trade among merchants, bargaining over the price.
3. To make someone able to hear and understand, as if opening his ear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dug ×9
• digs ×3
• bargain ×1
• excavated ×1
• like a lion ×1
• trade ×1
• you have opened ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×2

• Genesis 26:25

  He built there an altar and called on the name of YHWH, and pitched his tent there, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 50:5

  ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Look, I am about to die; in my tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return.’”

• Exodus 21:33

  When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

• Numbers 21:18

  The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  They buried him in his tombs that he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on the bed that they had filled with spices and perfumes of various kinds blended as a perfumer’s work; and they made for him a very great burning.

• Job 6:27

  You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your companion.

• Job 41:6

  Will partners trade in it? Will they divide it among merchants?

• Psalms 7:15

  He dug a pit and hollowed it out, and fell into the pit that he made.

• Psalms 22:16

  For dogs have surrounded me; a community of evildoers has encircled me; like a lion, my hands and my feet.

• Psalms 40:6

  Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; ears you have opened for me; burnt offering and sin offering you did not ask.

• Psalms 57:6

  A net they prepared for my footsteps; my soul was bowed down; they dug before me a hole; they fell into the middle of it. Selah.

• Psalms 94:13

  to give him calm from the days of evil, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

• Psalms 119:85

  The insolent have dug pits for me, which is not according to your instruction.

• Proverbs 16:27

  A perverse man digs up evil, and on his lips it is like a scorching fire.

• Proverbs 26:27

  Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone, on him it will come back.

• Jeremiah 18:20

  Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf, to turn back your fury from them.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.