Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3733
כַּר
karkar
saddle; pasture; ram
16 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 H3733is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3733
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)
The King James renders it: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033 (בֵּית כַּר), H3746 (כָּרִי).
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
kar is rendered "saddle; pasture; ram". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "saddle".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
Genesis 31:34בְּכַ֥ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: saddle, and pasture, and ram.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| saddleStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel… |
| pastureStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| ramStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lambs5
- battering-rams3
- pastures2
- a lamb1
- for lambs1
- in saddlebag of1
- like lambs1
- pasture1
- the lambs1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַּרְמֶל | karmel | plantation | Uses17 |
| כַּרְמְלִי | Karmeli | Carmelite | Uses7 |
| כַּרְמִיל | karmil | crimson | Uses3 |
| כַּרְכֹּב | karkob | ledge | Uses2 |
| כַּרְמִי | Karmi | Carmite | Uses1 |
| כַּרְבֵּל | karbel | be clothed | Uses1 |
| כַּרְכֹּם | karkom | saffron | Uses1 |
| כַּרְפַּס | karpas | fine linen | Uses1 |
| כַּרְבְּלָא | karbela | helmet | Uses1 |
| כַּרְכָּרָה | karkarah | dromedary | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- כָּרִים֙4
- בְּכַ֥ר1
- בְּכָרִ֤ים1
- הַכָּרִים֙1
- כְּכָרִ֣ים1
- כַ֥ר1
- כַּ֥ר1
- כָּרִ֑ים1
- כָּרִ֜ים1
- כָּרִ֔ים1
- כָּרִ֖ים1
- כָּרִ֤ים1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural10HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
one use
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- בְּכַ֥רbekharpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in saddlebag of
Deuteronomy
one use
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
- כָּרִ֜יםkarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lambs
1 Samuel
one use
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- הַכָּרִים֙hakarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the lambs
2 Kings
one use
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
- כָּרִ֔יםkarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lambs
Psalms
two uses
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- כָּרִ֑יםkarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pastures
The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
- כָרִ֨ים׀kharimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: pastures
Isaiah
three uses
Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
- כַ֥רkharnoun · masculine singulartagged: a lamb
Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- כַּ֥רkarnoun · masculine singulartagged: pasture
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- כָּרִים֙karimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lambs
Jeremiah
one use
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
- כְּכָרִ֣יםkekharimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like lambs
Ezekiel
five uses
Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
- כָּרִ֖יםkarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: battering-rams
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
- כָּרִים֙karimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: battering-rams
- כָּרִים֙karimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: battering-rams
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
- בְּכָרִ֤יםbekharimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: for lambs
You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
- כָּרִ֤יםkarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lambs
Amos
one use
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
- כָּרִים֙karimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lambs
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.