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כַּר H3733

H3733 is the Hebrew word כַּר, transliterated kar and said kar. The King James Version most often renders it lambs.

Word: כַּרTransliteration: karSaid: karLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 14 verses

What it means

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).

Where it comes from

from H3769 (כָּרַר) in the sense of plumpness.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 15 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

lambs 8×battering rams 2×furniture 1×pastures 1×lamb 1×like lambs 1×captains 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033 (בֵּית כַּר), H3746 (כָּרִי).

Verses using כַּר

All 14 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 31:34 · KJV

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Deuteronomy 32:14 · KJV

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

1 Samuel 15:9 · KJV

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

2 Kings 3:4 · KJV

And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

Psalm 37:20 · KJV

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Psalm 65:13 · KJV

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Isaiah 16:1 · KJV

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 34:6 · KJV

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Jeremiah 51:40 · KJV

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

Ezekiel 4:2 · KJV

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Ezekiel 21:22 · KJV

At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

Ezekiel 27:21 · KJV

Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

Ezekiel 39:18 · KJV

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Amos 6:4 · KJV

That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Common questions

What does Strong's H3733 mean?

H3733 is the Hebrew word כַּר (kar), meaning 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).

How is H3733 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it lambs (8 times), battering rams (2 times), furniture (1 time), pastures (1 time), lamb (1 time), among others.

How many times does H3733 appear in the Bible?

כַּר (kar) is tagged in 14 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H3733 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H3769 (כָּרַר) in the sense of plumpness.

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