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# כַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3537

**jar** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

jar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3537/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּד: n.f. jar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3537/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. jar (NH id.; Aramaic כַּדָּא)—כַּד abs. 1 K 17:12 Ec 12:6; cstr. 1 K 17:14, 16; כַּדֵּךְ Gn 24:14, 17, 43 etc.; pl. כַּדִּים Ju 7:16(×2) + 3 times;—water-jar, carried on woman’s shoulder Gn 24:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 43, 45, 46 (all J), 1 K 18:34 Ec 12:6; empty (of water), containing lamps Ju 7:16, 19, 20; containing meal 1 K 17:12, 14, 16. (On extra-Palest. hist. of this word cf. LagBN 104.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jar (10); jars (4); the jar (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.17/#tree)

וַיָּ֥רָץ הָעֶ֖בֶד לִקְרָאתָ֑הּ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הַגְמִיאִ֥ינִי נָ֛א מְעַט־מַ֖יִם מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.ran the servant to meet her and he.said give me.to.drink please a.little of.water from jar your

*JPS 1917:* And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.'

[Genesis 24:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.18/#tree)

וַתֹּ֖אמֶר שְׁתֵ֣ה אֲדֹנִ֑י וַתְּמַהֵ֗ר וַתֹּ֧רֶד כַּדָּ֛הּ עַל־יָדָ֖הּ וַתַּשְׁקֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said drink my.lord my and she.hurried and she.put.down jar her on hand her and she gave.him.a.drink

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3537.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3537/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).