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title: כַּד — jar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּד (3537), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: jar. BDB 1906: n.f. jar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּד

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«כַּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **jar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 18 times · **Key:** 3537 · **BDB:** כַּד

### Glosses

jar (10); jars (4); the.jar (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.)

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3537/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.'

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

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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.

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