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title: כָּרִי — Carian · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּרִי (3746), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Carian. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Carian. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּרִי

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«כָּרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Carian** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3746 · **BDB:** כָּרִי

### Glosses

Carian\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3746/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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