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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3537

כַּד

kadkad

jar

18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3537is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3537

properly, a pail

The King James renders it: barrel, pitcher.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kad is rendered "jar". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:14Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Genesis 24:14כַדֵּךְ֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's eighteen uses are in Genesis.

The other 35 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • jar her4
  • the jars3
  • and jar her2
  • from jar your2
  • jar of2
  • and jars1
  • in the jar1
  • jar1
  • jar your1
  • jars1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

כַּדְכֹּדkadkodrubyUses2

The words it stands beside

All 18, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • כַּ֤ד2
  • כַּדָּהּ֙2
  • מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃2
  • בַּכַּ֔ד1
  • הַכַּדִּ֖ים1
  • הַכַּדִּים֒1
  • הַכַּדִּֽים׃1
  • וְכַדָּ֖הּ1
  • וְכַדָּ֣הּ1
  • וְכַדִּ֣ים1
  • כַּד֙1
  • כַדָּ֖הּ1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp3fs
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HR/Ncfsc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
  • noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa

Genesis

nine uses
  • Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

    Genesis 24:14

    • כַדֵּךְ֙khadekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: jar your
  • Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

    Genesis 24:15

    • וְכַדָּ֖הּvekhadahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and jar her
  • Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

    Genesis 24:16

    • כַדָּ֖הּkhadahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: jar her
  • So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

    Genesis 24:17

    • מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃mikadekhpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: from jar your
  • “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

    Genesis 24:18

    • כַּדָּ֛הּkadahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: jar her
  • And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

    Genesis 24:20

    • כַּדָּהּ֙kadahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: jar her
  • Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’

    Genesis 24:43

    • מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃mikadekhpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: from jar your
  • And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

    Genesis 24:45

    • וְכַדָּ֣הּvekhadahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and jar her
  • She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

    Genesis 24:46

    • כַּדָּהּ֙kadahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: jar her

Judges

four uses
  • And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

    Judges 7:16

    • וְכַדִּ֣יםvekhadimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and jars
    • הַכַּדִּֽים׃hakadimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the jars
  • Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.

    Judges 7:19

    • הַכַּדִּ֖יםhakadimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the jars
  • The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

    Judges 7:20

    • הַכַּדִּים֒hakadimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the jars

1 Kings

four uses
  • But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

    1 Kings 17:12

    • בַּכַּ֔דbakadpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the jar
  • for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”

    1 Kings 17:14

    • כַּ֤דkadnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: jar of
  • The jar of flour was not exhausted and the jug of oil did not run dry, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Elijah.

    1 Kings 17:16

    • כַּ֤דkadnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: jar of
  • Next, he arranged the wood, cut up the bull, placed it on the wood,

    1 Kings 18:33

    • כַדִּים֙khadimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jars

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

    Ecclesiastes 12:6

    • כַּד֙kadnoun · feminine singulartagged: jar

The letters

Gematria 24

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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