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Hollow

כָּרָהStrong’s H3741

karah (ka-rah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Karah is the Hebrew word usually translated “meadows of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.”
Zephaniah 2:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cistern, cave, water meadow or something else that is hollow where shepherds might rest
How it's translated
  • meadows of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Zephaniah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    כָּרָה karah · hollow

    cistern, cave, water meadow or something else that is hollow where shepherds might rest

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “hollow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    HOL'LOW, adjective

    1. Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.“Hollow with boards shalt thou make it” Exodus 27:8
    2. Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.
    3. Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.
    4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
    All definitions and other forms of “hollow”

      HOL'LOW, noun

      A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand.

      1. A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.
      2. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.
      3. A pit.
      4. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.

      HOL'LOW, verb transitive

      To make hollow as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

        HOL'LOW, verb intransitive

        To shout. [See Holla and Hollo.]

          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.