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title: כָּרָה — cistern · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּרָה (3741), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cistern. BDB 1906: n.f. cistern well. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּרָה

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«כָּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cistern** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3741 · **BDB:** כָּרָה²

### Glosses

of.meadows (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cistern [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3741/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cistern well [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3741/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cistern (or well), only pl. cstr. in נְוֹת כְּרֹת רֹעִים Zp 2:6 pastures of (= with) wells of shepherds, but text dub.; כ׳ a gloss according to Kö ii. 176, (§ 94 a) Anm.; 𝔊 κρήτη; We (והיתה כרת נות רעים, as 𝔊) kereth = Philistia; v. further כְּרֵתִי; Böhme ZAW vii. 1887, 212 views כְּרֹת, plausibly, as erron. variant of preceding נְוֹת, so Schwally ib. x. 1890, 185, 186; Rothstein in KauAT.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3741/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zephaniah 2:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.6/)

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וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה חֶ֣בֶל הַיָּ֗ם נְוֺ֛ת כְּרֹ֥ת רֹעִ֖ים וְגִדְר֥וֹת צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be the.region of the.sea pastures of.meadows of.shepherds and folds of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* And the sea-coast shall be pastures, even meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

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