Strong’s H3739 · Hebrew
כָּרָה
kârâh · kaw-raw'
Origin usually assigned as a primitive root, but probably only a special application of כָּרָה (H3738) (through the common idea of planning implied in a bargain);
Meaning to purchase
In the King James Version buy, prepare.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 2:6Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
- 2 Kings 6:23And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
- Job 41:6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
- Hosea 3:2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.