Lexicon karah: a cistern, well Original Word: כְּרֹתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: karah Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-raw') Short Definition: caves NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom karahDefinitiona cistern, well NASB Translationcaves (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ כָּרָה] noun feminine cistern (or well), only plural construct In נְוֺת כְּרֹת רֹעִים Zephaniah 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. כְּרֹת Zephaniah 2:6 see [ כָּרָה] below I. כרה. Strong's cottage Feminine of kar; a meadow -- cottage. see HEBREW kar |
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