To trade
כָּרָהStrong’s H3739karah (ka-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karah is the Hebrew word usually translated “buy”, “gave a feast” and “may bargain”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to get by trade, trade, buy, bargain over
- (Qal) to give a feast, banquet
How it's translated
- you will buy 1
- and he gave a feast 1
- and you may bargain 1
- will they bargain 1
- and i bought her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Hosea 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 6:27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- 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:
Hebrew dictionary
כָּרָה karah · to trade
(Qal) to get by trade, trade, buy, bargain over
כָּרָה karah · to feed
(Qal) to give a feast, banquet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trade” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRADE, noun
[Latin tracto, to handle, use, treat.]
- The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money.
- The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture.
- Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade
- Instruments of any occupation.
All definitions and other forms of “trade”
- Employment not manual; habitual exercise.
- Custom; habit; standing practice.
- Men engaged in the same occupation.
TRADE, verb intransitive
To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.
- To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance.
- To act merely for money.
- To have a trade wind.
TRADE, verb transitive
To sell or exchange in commerce.
- “They traded the persons of men” Ezekiel 27:13
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.