kad · jar

What it means

kad (כַּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “jar”.

An earthen vessel for carrying water or keeping flour.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A clay vessel for water or flour.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• jar ×13
• jars ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Judges×4
• 1 Kings×4
• Ecclesiastes×1

• Genesis 24:14

  Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”

• Genesis 24:15

  It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:16

  The girl was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

• Genesis 24:17

  The servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me sip a little water from your jar.”

• Genesis 24:18

  She said, “Drink, my lord.” And she quickly lowered her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.

• Genesis 24:20

  She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

• Genesis 24:43

  look, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Genesis 24:46

  She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels too.

• Judges 7:16

  He divided the three hundred men into three companies and put horns in the hand of all of them, and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

• Judges 7:19

  Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the watch in the middle, when they had just set the guards; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hand.

• Judges 7:20

  The three companies blew the horns and broke the jars; they held in their left hand the torches, and in their right hand the horns to blow, and they called out, “A sword for YHWH and for Gideon!”

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As YHWH your Elohim lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug; and look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, and I will go in and prepare it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die.”

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run short, until the day that YHWH gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

• 1 Kings 17:16

  The jar of flour was not used up, and the jug of oil did not run short, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Elijah.

• 1 Kings 18:34

  And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time.

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;

And 1 more times.