The meaning of “כַּר”
Understanding kar reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also בֵּית כַּר, כָּרִי. - a ram (as full-grown and fat), including ...
כַּר
captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also בֵּית כַּר, כָּרִי. - a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting) - hence, a meadow (as for sheep) - also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out) 1) howdah, palanquin, basket saddle 1a) an enclosed riding space erected on a camel's saddle 2) pasture, meadow 3) ram, lamb, he-lamb 4) battering-ram
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 31:34 | “Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.” Word: כַּר (kar) | |
| Deuteronomy 32:14 | “Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.” Word: כַּר (kar) | |
| 1 Samuel 15:9 | “But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.” Word: כַּר (kar) | |
| 2 Kings 3:4 | “And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.” Word: כַּר (kar) | |
| Psalms 65:13 | “The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing. ” Word: כַּר (kar) |
Usage Statistics
Related Words
Cross-referenced Strong's numbers with semantic or etymological connections.