Definition
from H3769 in the sense of plumpness; 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)
Traditional renderings: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033, H3746.
Traditional renderings: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033, H3746.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כָּר:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
16 total
- Genesis 31:34בְּכַ֥ר · in the saddlebagNow 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:14כָּרִ֜ים · of lambs…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.
- 1 Samuel 15:9הַכָּרִים֙ · lambsSaul 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 devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- 2 Kings 3:4כָּרִ֔ים · lambsNow 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.
- Psalm 37:20כָּרִ֑ים · of the fieldsBut the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Psalm 65:13כָרִ֨ים׀ · The pasturesThe pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
- Isaiah 16:1כַ֥ר · the [tribute] lambsSend the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
- Isaiah 30:23כַּ֥ר · pasturesThen 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.
- Isaiah 34:6כָּרִים֙ · of lambsThe 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.
- Jeremiah 51:40כְּכָרִ֣ים · like lambsI will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
- Ezekiel 4:2כָּרִ֖ים · battering ramsThen 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.
- Ezekiel 21:22כָּרִים֙ · battering rams; כָּרִים֙ · the battering ramsIn 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.
- Ezekiel 27:21בְּכָרִ֤ים · in lambsArabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
- Ezekiel 39:18כָּרִ֤ים · lambsYou 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.
- Amos 6:4כָּרִים֙ · lambsYou lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.