כַּר
kar · kar
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3769 (כָּרַר) 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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033 (בֵּית כַּר), H3746 (כָּרִי).
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
The open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כַּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of lambs4 · 25%
- battering rams2 · 13%
- furniture1 · 6%
- and the lambs1 · 6%
- lambs1 · 6%
- the pastures1 · 6%
- ye the lamb1 · 6%
- pastures1 · 6%
- like lambs1 · 6%
- captains1 · 6%
- in lambs1 · 6%
- the lambs1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.