כָּרָה kârâh — properly, to dig
Translated in the KJV as dig, × make, open.
a primitive root; properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open.
kârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›