כָּרָהkârâh
כָּרָה: get by trade, trade
Pronunciation: kaw-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3739
Meanings
Qal: get by trade, buy (Hosea 3:2; Job 40:30; Deuteronomy 2:6)
כָּרָה: give a feast
Qal: and he gave a great feast for them (2 Kings 6:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 2:6 If you need food to eat or water to drink, pay them for it.
- 2 Kings 6:23 So the king made a great feast for them and then sent them home to their master. After that, the Aramean raiders stayed away from the land of Israel.
- Job 6:27 You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.
- Job 41:6 Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?
- Hosea 3:2 So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).