kar · saddle; lamb; pasture

What it means

kar (כַּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “saddle; lamb; pasture”.

Fattened lamb; also pasture, and a battering ram. Also a camel saddle shaped like a basket.

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 field of green grass where flocks graze.
2. A fattened lamb.
3. A log for battering city gates.
4. What is put on a camel for riding.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lambs ×8
• battering rams ×3
• meadows ×2
• lamb ×1
• pasture ×1
• saddle ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel and sat on them. Laban felt through the whole tent but did not find them.

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  curds of cattle and milk of the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank, foaming wine.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the flock and the herd, the second-born and the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but all the property that was despised and worthless, that they devoted to destruction.

• 2 Kings 3:4

  Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep breeder, and he delivered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams with their wool.

• Psalms 37:20

  For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of YHWH, like what is precious in the meadows, are spent; in smoke they are spent.

• Psalms 65:13

  The meadows have put on flocks, and the valleys are covered with grain; they shout aloud, and also they sing.

• Isaiah 16:1

  Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from Sela toward the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

• Isaiah 30:23

  And he will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; your herds will graze on that day in a broad pasture.

• Isaiah 34:6

  The sword of YHWH is full of blood, it is made fat with fat, with the blood of lambs and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YHWH has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

• Jeremiah 51:40

  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

• Ezekiel 4:2

  And put a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a ramp against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around.

• Ezekiel 21:22

  In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in murder, to raise the voice with a shout, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege ramp, to build a siege tower.

• Ezekiel 27:21

  Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs and rams and male goats, in these they were your merchants.

• Ezekiel 39:18

  The flesh of mighty men you will eat, and the blood of the chiefs of the earth you will drink — rams, lambs, and male goats, bulls, fatlings of Bashan all of them.

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

And 1 more times.