כָּרִי
kari · Carites
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3746 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kari (כָּרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Carites”.
The name of a body of soldiers who formed the king's guard in Jerusalem (2 Kings 11:4, 19). The lexicon explains it as "life-guardsmen."
How to say it
ka·ri
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
- Foreign soldiers who formed the king's guard.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 2 Kings 11:4
In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of hundreds of the Carites and of the runners and brought them to him into the house of YHWH; and he made a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of YHWH, and he showed them the king’s son.
- 2 Kings 11:19
He took the commanders of hundreds, and the Carites, and the runners, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of YHWH and came by the way of the gate of the runners to the house of the king; and he sat on the throne of the kings.