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# כַּר

Biblical Hebrew

**pasture** — used 3 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

pasture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּר²: n.m. pasture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 65:14 pasture (√ dub.; Thes der. from כַּר lamb (= lamb-pasturage); SchwallyZAW x. (1890) 186 from כרה, and comp. Assyrian kirû \[which however = nursery of trees, grove DlHWB 353\], Arabic كُرٌّ cistern; HomNS 100 from כרר q.v., orig. = round enclosure);—sg. only כַּר נִרְחָ֑ב Is 30:23 a roomy pasture; pl. כָּרִים ψ 37:20, לָֽבְשׁוּ כ׳ הַצֹּאן 65:14 the pastures are clothed with the sheep (\> Schwally l.c. who tr. lambs ψ 37:20 after Aq 𝔖 𝔗, and 65:14, and underst. Is 30:23 of a def. pl.).—iii. כַּר lamb v. sub כרר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: \[the\] pastures (1); of pastures (1); pasture (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 65:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.14/#tree)

לָבְשׁ֬וּ כָרִ֨ים ׀ הַצֹּ֗אן וַעֲמָקִ֥ים יַֽעַטְפוּ־בָ֑ר יִ֝תְרוֹעֲע֗וּ אַף־יָשִֽׁירוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.are.clothed \[the\].pastures (the) flock\[s\] and.\[the\] valleys they.cover.themselves grain they.shout.for.joy also they.sing

*JPS 1917:* The meadows are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

[Psalms 37:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.20/#tree)

כִּ֤י רְשָׁעִ֨ים ׀ יֹאבֵ֗דוּ וְאֹיְבֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה כִּיקַ֣ר כָּרִ֑ים כָּל֖וּ בֶעָשָׁ֣ן כָּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) wicked.\[people\] they.will.perish and the.enemies of.Yahweh \[will be\].like.a.splendid.\[thing\] of.pastures they.will.come.to.an.end in (the) smoke they.will.come.to.an.end

*JPS 1917:* For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs — they shall pass away in smoke, they shall pass away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5e8/): 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).