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title: כַּר — he-lamb · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּר (3733), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: he-lamb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּר

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«כַּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **he-lamb** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 3733 · **BDB:** כַּר³

### Glosses

lambs (6); battering-rams (3); of.lambs (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

he-lamb [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3733/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] he-lamb, battering-ram (Assyrian kirru, Zim in Schwally ZAW x. (1890), 186; perhaps lamb from dancing, skipping, gallopping in field; (battering-)ram as in Eng., from butting; cf. Arabic كَبْشٌ ram and buttress, Lane; also battering-ram cf. Dozy ii. 440);—sg. only Is 16:1 the lamb of the ruler (as tribute); elsewhere pl. כָּרִים Am 6:4 1 S 15:9; 2 K 3:4; Je 51:40 (in sim.), Ez 27:21; 39:18; חֵלֶב כ׳ Dt 32:14 the fat of lambs; דַּם כ׳ וְעַתּוּדִים Is 34:6 the blood of lambs and goats; כָּרִים = battering-rams Ez 4:2; 21:27(×2) (in v a Co reads שָׂרִים, cf. AV; MT RV as above).—Vid. also בֵּית כָּ֑ר p. 111 supr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3733/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 51:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.40/)

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אֽוֹרִידֵ֖ם כְּכָרִ֣ים לִטְב֑וֹחַ כְּאֵילִ֖ים עִם־עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I will.bring.them.down like lambs for slaughtering like rams with goats

*JPS 1917:* I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

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[Isaiah 16:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.1/)

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שִׁלְחוּ־כַ֥ר מֹשֵֽׁל־אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־הַ֖ר בַּת־צִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* send a.lamb \[the\].ruler of.\[the\].land from Sela wilderness to.\[the\] to the.mountain of.the.daughter of.Zion

*JPS 1917:* Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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