כַּד kad

Hebrew word for “jar” · Strong’s H3537 · used 18 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

jar, large jar (portable)

How it is translated

Glosses given for kad in context, with how often each is used:

• jar 13
• jars 5

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 24 (9), Judges 7 (3), 1 Kings 17 (3), 1 Kings 18 (1), Ecclesiastes 12 (1)

Forms

• כדה 4
• הכדים 3
• כד 3
• וכדה 2
• מכדך 2
• כדך 1
• וכדים 1
• בכד 1
• כדים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁקָה shaqah “to water” 5
• צַפַּחַת tsappachat “jar” 3
• קֶמַח qemach “flour” 3
• שָׁאַב shaav “to draw” 3
• כָּלָה kalah “to end” 4
• גָּמָל gamal “camel” 3
• שֹׁפָר shophar “trumpet” 3
• מָהַר mahar “to hasten” 3
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 4
• מְעַט meat “little” 3
• נָא na “please” 4
• לַפִּיד lappid “torch” 2

Key verses

The verses using kad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 24:14 — And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give…
• Genesis 24:15 — And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother,…
• Genesis 24:16 — And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
• Genesis 24:17 — And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
• Genesis 24:18 — And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
• Genesis 24:45 — And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew and I said…
• Judges 7:16 — And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
• Judges 7:19 — So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the…
• Judges 7:20 — And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow and…
• 1 Kings 17:12 — And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two…
• 1 Kings 17:14 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon…
• 1 Kings 18:33 — And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.