Word

כַּד

kad · H3537 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences

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Thing

Clay jarContainers for storage25 verses

Meanings

jar, pitcher

Artifact used as container, usually made of mud or ceramic, for different domestic purposes

Examples
Genesis 24:14 now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Genesis 24:15 And it came about, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had had relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

11 occurrences in 3 groups

הּher 6
ךְyour 3
קֶמַחflour 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

3 occurrences in 3 groups

יָדhand, power 1
אַרְבַּעfour 1
רֵיקempty 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

כָּלָהto be finished 2
שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1

What is done to itIt is the object

8 occurrences in 6 groups

יָרַדto go down, to come down 2
מָלֵאto be full, to fill 2
נָטָהto stretch out, to incline 1
נָפַץto break 1
עָרָהto uncover 1
שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׁכֶםshoulder 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מְלֹאgroup 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 4
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תָּוֶךְmiddle 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ὑδρία hydría · G5201 · pitcher, water jar: Greek ὑδρία specifically denotes a water-jar or water-carrying vessel, whereas Hebrew כַּד encompasses a broader range of domestic containers (barrels, pitchers) for various household supplies; the Greek term represents the most common functional translation equivalent in contexts involving water storage or transport.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Containers001003001001003: The word names a pitcher or jar, a container for carrying water, as with the jars Gideon's men carried in Judges 7:16 and Rebekah's water jar in Genesis 24:14.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כַּדkad · H3537כַּדְכֹּד kadkôd · H3539 · ruby · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3537. kad כַּד noun feminine jar (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כַּדָּא) — כַּד absolute 1Ki…

H3537. kad
כַּד noun feminine jar (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כַּדָּא) — כַּד absolute 1Ki 17:12; Ecc 12:6; construct 1Ki 17:14, 1Ki 17:16; כַּדֵּךְ Gen 24:14, Gen 24:17, Gen 24:43 etc.; plural כַּדִּים Jdg 7:16 (twice in verse) + 3t.; — water-jar, carried on woman's shoulder Gen 24:14-15, Gen 24:16, Gen 24:17, Gen 24:18, Gen 24:20, Gen 24:43, Gen 24:45, Gen 24:46 (all J), 1Ki 18:34; Ecc 12:6; empty (of water), containing lamps Jdg 7:16, Jdg 7:19, Jdg 7:20; containing meal 1Ki 17:12, 1Ki 17:14, 1Ki 17:16. (On extra-Palestinian history of this word compare LagBN 104.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Containers18 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0