כָּרָה kârâh — to purchase
Translated in the KJV as buy, prepare.
usually assigned as a primitive root, but probably only a special application of H3738 (through the common idea of planning implied in a bargain); to purchase.
kârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Ye 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.
And 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.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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 ›