Definition
from an unused root meaning to deepen; properly, a pail; but generally of earthenware; a jar for domestic purposes
Traditional renderings: barrel, pitcher.
Traditional renderings: barrel, pitcher.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כַּד:
- ὑδρίαhudria“jar”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
18 total
- Genesis 24:14כַדֵּךְ֙ · your jarNow 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 24:15וְכַדָּ֖הּ · with her jarBefore 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 24:16כַדָּ֖הּ · her jarNow 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 24:17מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃ · from your jarSo the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
- Genesis 24:18כַּדָּ֛הּ · her jar“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
- Genesis 24:20כַּדָּהּ֙ · her jarAnd 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 24:43מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃ · from your jarHere 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 24:45וְכַדָּ֣הּ · with her jarAnd 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 24:46כַּדָּהּ֙ · her jarShe 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.
- Judges 7:16וְכַדִּ֣ים · jar [in the other]; הַכַּדִּֽים׃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 7:19הַכַּדִּ֖ים · the jarsGideon 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 7:20הַכַּדִּים֒ · their jarsThe 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!”
- 1 Kings 17:12בַּכַּ֔ד · in a jarBut 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 17:14כַּ֤ד · 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 17:16כַּ֤ד · The jarThe 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 18:34כַדִּים֙…and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
- Ecclesiastes 12:6כַּד֙ · [before] the pitcherRemember 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,