kereti · Kerethites

What it means

kereti (כְּרֵתִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Kerethites”.

Kerethite: a member of a people neighboring the Philistines, in the south. Later there were Kerethites in David's personal guard (2 Samuel 8:18).

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 southern people, and part of David's guard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Samuel 30:14

  We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, and against what belongs to Judah, and against the Negev of Caleb; and Ziklag we burned with fire.”

• 2 Samuel 8:18

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

• 2 Samuel 15:18

  All his servants were passing beside him, and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come after him from Gath, were passing before the king.

• 2 Samuel 20:7

  So there went out after him Joab’s men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

• 1 Chronicles 18:17

  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were the chief ones at the side of the king.

• Ezekiel 25:16

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and make perish the remnant of the coast of the sea.

• Zephaniah 2:5

  Woe to the inhabitants of the strip of the sea, nation of the Cherethites! The word of YHWH is against you: “Canaan, land of the Philistines, I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.”