Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3741 - כָּרָה karah (a cistern)

Original Word:	כָּרָה
Transliteration:	karah
Definition:	a cistern, well
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cottage

Feminine of kar; a meadow -- cottage.

see HEBREW kar

Englishman's Concordance

1) cottage
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3733
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1033a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָּרָה] noun femininecistern (or well), only plural construct In נְוֺת כְּרֹת רֹעִיםZephaniah 2:6 pastures of (=with) wells of shepherds, but text dubious; ׳כ a gloss according to Kö^{ii. 176}, (§ 94 a) Anm.; ᵐ5. κρήτὴ We (כֶרת נות רעים והיתה as ᵐ5. kereth=Philistia; see further כְּרֵתִי; Böhme^{ZAW vii. 1887, 212} views כְּרֹת, plausibly, as erroneous variant of preceding נְוֺת, so Schw^{ib. x. 1890, 185, 186}; Rosthstein in Kau^AT.

כְּרֹתZephaniah 2:6 see [ כָּרָה] below I. כרה.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3741. כְּרֹת (karah) — 1 Occurrence
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

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