כַּר kar
Hebrew word for “ram” · Strong’s H3733 · used 16 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) ram, lamb, he-lamb; 2) battering-ram
Senses in the lexicon
- ram (12)
- pasture (3)
- saddle (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for kar in context, with how often each is used:
- lambs 7
- battering-rams 3
- pastures 2
- lamb 1
- like lambs 1
- pasture 1
- saddlebag 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 31 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), 1 Samuel 15 (1), 2 Kings 3 (1), Psalms 37 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Isaiah 16 (1), Isaiah 30 (1), Isaiah 34 (1), Jeremiah 51 (1)
Forms
- כרים 10
- כר 2
- הכרים 1
- ככרים 1
- בכרים 1
- בכר 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עַתּוּד attud “goat” 5
- אַיִל ayil “ram” 6
- צֹאן tson “flock” 4
- דָּיֵק dayeq “siegework” 2
- סֹלְלָה solelah “mound” 2
- כִּלְיָה kilyah “kidney” 2
- דָּם dam “blood” 3
- בָּשָׁן bashan “Bashan” 2
- חֵלֶב chelev “fat” 2
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 3
- שָׁפַךְ shaphakh “to pour” 2
- נָשִׂיא nasi “leader” 2
Key verses
The verses using kar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 32:14 — 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…
- 1 Samuel 15:9 — 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…
- 2 Kings 3:4 — 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.
- Psalms 37:20 — 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.
- Psalms 65:13 — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- Isaiah 16:1 — Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- Isaiah 30:23 — Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in…
- Isaiah 34:6 — 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…
- Ezekiel 21:22 — 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…
- Ezekiel 27:21 — 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 — 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…
- Amos 6:4 — 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;
See all 15 verses in the Word Atlas
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.