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# כָּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3739

**get by trade** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

get by trade [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3739/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּרָה³: vb. get by trade, trade [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3739/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. get by trade, trade (NH כִּירָה act of buying, purchase (so ‘in den Küstenländern,’) LevyNWB ii. 323 f.); Arabic كَرَى let for hire);—only Impf. 1 s. sf. וָאֶכְּרֶהָ Ho 3:2 (d. f. dirim., si vera l. punctat., Ges§ 20. 2, b; but cf. We); 3 mpl. יִכְרוּ Jb 40:30; 2 mpl. תִּכְרוּ Dt 2:6 Jb 6:27;—get by trade, buy, c. acc. Ho 3:2 Dt 2:6; sq. עַל־ trade in, make trade of Jb 6:27; 40:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (1); will they barter? (1); you will barter (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/#tree)

יִכְר֣וּ עָ֭לָיו חַבָּרִ֑ים יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּ בֵּ֣ין כְּֽנַעֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* will.they.barter? on it partners will they.divide.it? between merchants

*JPS 1917:* Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants?

[Job 6:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.27/#tree)

אַף־עַל־יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* even on a.fatherless.one you.will.make.fall and you.will.barter on friend your

*JPS 1917:* Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3739.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3739/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).