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# כָּרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3746

**Carian** — used 2 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

Carian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3746/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּרִי: adj.gent. Carian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3746/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. prob. = Carian, only c. art. as subst. coll. Carians, name given to foreign body-guard of king (cf. RSOTJC 249, 2d ed. 262) לַכָּרִי וְלָרָצִים 2 K 11:4 cf. v 19; הכרי 2 S 20:23 Kt (הַכְּרֵתִי, which We Dr Bu prefer).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Carian\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 11:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.19/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח אֶת־שָׂרֵ֣י הַ֠מֵּאוֹת וְאֶת־הַכָּרִ֨י וְאֶת־הָרָצִ֜ים וְאֵ֣ת ׀ כָּל־עַ֣ם הָאָ֗רֶץ וַיֹּרִ֤ידוּ אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה וַיָּב֛וֹאוּ דֶּֽרֶך־שַׁ֥עַרהָרָצִ֖ים בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־כִּסֵּ֥א הַמְּלָכִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.took (et) the.commanders of the.hundreds and (et) the Carian\[s\] and (et) the runners and (et) all the.people of the.land and they.brought.down (et) the king from the.house of.Yahweh and they.came the.way of.the.gate of the.runners the.house of the.king and he.sat on the.throne of the.kings

*JPS 1917:* And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

[2 Kings 11:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.4/#tree)

וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה הַ֠שְּׁבִיעִית שָׁלַ֨ח יְהוֹיָדָ֜ע וַיִּקַּ֣ח ׀ אֶת־שָׂרֵ֣י הַמֵּא֗וֹת לַכָּרִי֙ וְלָ֣רָצִ֔ים וַיָּבֵ֥א אֹתָ֛ם אֵלָ֖יו בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּכְרֹת֩ לָהֶ֨ם בְּרִ֜ית וַיַּשְׁבַּ֤ע אֹתָם֙ בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה וַיַּ֥רְא אֹתָ֖ם אֶת־בֶּן־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and in the year (the) seventh he.sent Jehoiada and he.took (et) the.commanders of the.hundreds of the Carian\[s\] and of the runners and he.brought them to himself the.house of.Yahweh and he.made to them a.covenant and he.made.to.swear.an.oath them in the.house of.Yahweh and he.showed them (et) the.son of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds, of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3746.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3746/): 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).