Hebrew n--tg · H3774
כְּרֵתִי
Kerethiker-ay-thee'
Cherethite
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kᵉrêthîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3774is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3774
a Kerethite or life-guardsman
The King James renders it: Cherethims, Cherethites.
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
Kerethi is rendered "Cherethite". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 30:14We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
1 Samuel 30:14הַכְּרֵתִ֛י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the Kerethite4
- the Kerethite4
- Kerethites2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּרוּב | kerub | cherub | Uses91 |
| כְּרִיתוּת | kerithuth | divorce | Uses4 |
| כְּרַז | keraz | to proclaim | Uses1 |
| כְּרֵשׂ | keres | belly | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הַכְּרֵתִ֖י3
- וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖י2
- כְּרֵתִ֑ים2
- הַכְּרֵתִ֛י1
- וְהַכְּרֵתִ֥י1
- וְהַכְּרֵתִי֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)4HC/Td/Ngmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)4HTd/Ngmsa
- gentilic noun (a people)2HNgmpa
1 Samuel
one use
We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
- הַכְּרֵתִ֛יhakeretithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Kerethite
2 Samuel
four uses
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
- וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖יvehakereticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Kerethite
and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
- הַכְּרֵתִ֖יhakeretithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Kerethite
So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.
- וְהַכְּרֵתִ֥יvehakereticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Kerethite
Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;
- הַכְּרֵתִ֖יhakerithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Kerethite
1 Kings
two uses
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
- וְהַכְּרֵתִי֙vehakereticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Kerethite
And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
- וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖יvehakereticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Kerethite
1 Chronicles
one use
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.
- הַכְּרֵתִ֖יhakeretithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Kerethite
Ezekiel
one use
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- כְּרֵתִ֑יםkeretimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Kerethites
Zephaniah
one use
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
- כְּרֵתִ֑יםkeretimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Kerethites
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.