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title: כָּרָה — give a feast · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּרָה (lemma:כָּרָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: give a feast. BDB 1906: vb. give feast. 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: **give a feast** — 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:** lemma:כָּרָה · **BDB:** כָּרָה⁴

### Glosses

he.gave.a.feast (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

give a feast [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. give feast [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. give a feast (lit. perhaps bring (guests), invite; cf. Assyrian karû, bring, kirêtu, feast, kireti iškun, he gave a feast, DlHWB 352);— only Impf. c. acc. cogn., וַיִּכְרֶה לָהֶם כֵּרָה גְדוֹלָה 2 K 6:23 and he gave a great feast for them (the context requires this sense, but text dubious, Nö ZMG 1886, 724, cf. Klo).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 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/lemma_3a_5db_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 6:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.23/)

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וַיִּכְרֶ֨ה לָהֶ֜ם כֵּרָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֗ה וַיֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ וַיִּשְׁתּ֔וּ וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֔ם וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אֶל־אֲדֹֽנֵיהֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־יָ֤סְפוּ עוֹד֙ גְּדוּדֵ֣י אֲרָ֔ם לָב֖וֹא בְּאֶ֥רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.gave.a.feast for them a.feast great and they.ate and they.drank and he let.them.go and they.went to master(s) their and not they.repeated again the.marauding.bands of.Aram to come in the.land of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram came no more into the land of Israel.

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