כַּר
kar · H3733 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
A word for 3 things
- Sheep, lambMammals319 verses
- Saddle, saddle clothTransportation15 verses
- Battering ramSiege instruments6 verses
Meanings
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he-lamb, young ram
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a young male sheep
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:14 Curds of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats, With the best of the wheat; And you drank wine of the blood of grapes.
1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the more valuable animals, the lambs, and everything that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them completely; but everything despicable and weak, that they completely destroyed.
2 Kings 3:4 Now Mesha the king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to make tribute payments to the king of Israel of a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
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battering-ram
Literally: young ram; hence: a log or other long, heavy piece of wood, covered on one end with metal; used by soldiers to strike the wall or gate of a city under siege repeatedly
ExamplesEzekiel 4:2 “Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps, and place battering rams against it all around.
Ezekiel 21:22 “Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set up battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to raise the voice with a battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to pile up assault ramps, to build a siege wall.
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pasture, meadow
Open land with enough grass and plants to graze cattle or flocks of sheep and goats
ExamplesPsalm 37:20 But the wicked will perish; And the enemies of the LORD will be like the glory of the pastures, They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Psalm 65:13 The meadows are clothed with flocks And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing.
Isaiah 30:23 Then He will give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; on that day your livestock will graze in a wide pasture.
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saddle
Exact meaning unsure; probably: seat, fastened on the back of a camel, for riding
ExamplesGenesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּמָלcamel 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מֵאָהhundred 1
- רָחַבto be large 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְרִיאfatling 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָבַשׁto put on, to clothe, to wear 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 3
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
- שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- דָּםblood 1
- חֶלֶבfat 1
- יָקָרprecious 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
- ἀρήν arḗn · G704 · lamb
- Greek ἀρήν specifically denotes a male lamb/ram, corresponding to one of the primary livestock senses of Hebrew כַּר when used in pastoral contexts, though כַּר has broader semantic range including furniture and captain that ἀρήν does not cover.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- This word's most common sense is a lamb or ram, a domesticated flock animal, as in Deuteronomy 32:14's "fat of lambs and rams" and the tribute of a hundred thousand lambs in 2 Kings 3:4.
- Weapons001003001001020
- כַּר denotes a battering ram, a weapon of siege warfare, illustrated at Ezekiel 4:2 ("place battering rams against it all around") and Ezekiel 21:27.
- Landscapes001002004
- The word also denotes a pasture, an open grazing landscape, as in Psalm 37:20's "glory of the pastures" that vanishes like smoke.
- Coverings001003001001005
- The word further denotes a saddlebag or cushioned covering, as in Genesis 31:34's description of Rachel hiding the household idols in the camel's saddlebag.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3733. kar I. [כָּר] noun [masculine] basket-saddle, **for basket-saddle read <…
I. [כָּר] noun [masculine] basket-saddle, **for basket-saddle read < camelpalankeen; the palankeen, or tent-like erection, on the saddle (BurckhBedouins and Wahabys, 266 DoughtyArab. Des. i. 437. ii. 304 LaneModern Egyptians (5) ii. 158 and elsewhere), which seems intended here, is distinct from the basket or pannier (in which some women also traveled, PorterTravels ii. 232.). בְּכַרהַֿגָּמָל Gen 31:34 in the camel-basket, i.e. the basket-saddle of the camel, a sort of palankeen bound upon the saddle proper (compare Kn in Di and references) II. כַּר see in alphabetical order.
II. כַּר noun masculinePsalm 65:14 pasture (√ dubious; Thes derives from כַּר lamb (=lamb-pasturage); SchwZAW x. (1890) 186 from כרה, and compare Assyrian kirû [which however = nursery of trees, grove DlHWB 353], Arabic cistern; HomNS 100 from כרר q. v., originally = round enclosure); — singular only נִדְחָ֑בּ כַּד Isa 30:23 a roomy pasture; plural כָּרִים Psa 37:20, ׳כ הַצּאֹןלָֽבְשׁוּ Psalm 65:14 the pastures are clothed with the sheep (> Schwl.c. who translates lambs Psa 37:20 after Aq ᵑ7 ᵑ6 and Psalm 65:14, and understands Isa 30:23 of a definite plural). —
III. כַּר lamb see below כרר.
II. כַּר noun [masculine] he-lamb, battering-ram (Assyrian kirru, Zim in SchwZAW x. (1890), 186; perhaps lamb from dancing, skipping, galloping in field; (battering-) ram as in English, from butting; compare Arabic ram and buttress, Lane; also battering-ram compare Dozyii. 440); — singular only Isa 16:1 the lamb of the ruler (as tribute); elsewhere plural כָּרִים Amo 6:4; 1Sa 15:9; 2Ki 3:4; Jer 51:40 (in simile), Eze 27:21; Eze 39:18; כ ׳חֵלֶב Deu 32:14 the fat of lambs; וְעַתּוּדִים כ ׳דַּם Isa 34:6 the blood of lambs and goats; כָּרִים = battering-rams Eze 4:2; Eze 21:27 (twice in verse) (in va Co reads שָׂרִים, compare AV; ᵑ0 RV as above). — See also כָּ֑ר בֵּית p. I I I above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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
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