Lexical Definition

‎כַּר‎ kar (kar) saddle ^H:N-M
from ‎כָּרַר‎ in the sense of plumpness

captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also ‎בֵּית כַּר‎, ‎כָּרִי‎.

• a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting)
• hence, a meadow (as for sheep)
• also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out)

1) howdah, palanquin, basket saddle
1a) an enclosed riding space erected on a camel's saddle
2) pasture, meadow
3) ram, lamb, he-lamb
4) battering-ram

See Greek: ἐρίφιον · ἔριφος · ἑρπετόν · τόπος · χάραξ

Extended Information

• pasture, meadow

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎כָּר‎] noun [masculine] basket-saddle, **for basket-saddle read < camelpalankeen; the palankeen, or tent-like erection, on the saddle (Burckh^{Bedouins and Wahabys, 266} Doughty^{Arab. Des. i. 437. ii. 304} Lane^{Modern Egyptians (5) ii. 158 and elsewhere}), which seems intended here, is distinct from the basket or pannier (in which some women also traveled, Porter^{Travels ii. 232.}). ‎בְּכַרהַֿגָּמָל‎ Gen 31:34 in the camel-basket, i.e. the basket-saddle of the camel, a sort of palankeen bound upon the saddle proper (compare Kn in Di and references) II. ‎כַּר‎ see in alphabetical order.

II. ‎כַּר‎ noun masculine^{Ps 65:14*} pasture (√ dubious; Thes derives from ‎כַּר‎ lamb (=lamb-pasturage); Schw^{ZAW x. (1890) 186} from ‎כרה‎, and compare Assyrian kirû [which however = nursery of trees, grove Dl^{HWB 353}], Arabic cistern; Hom^{NS 100} from ‎כרר‎ q. v., originally = round enclosure); — singular only ‎כַּד נִדְחָ֑בּ‎ Isa 30:23 a roomy pasture; plural ‎כָּרִים‎ Ps 37:20, ‎הַצּאֹןלָֽבְשׁוּ‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Ps 65:14* the pastures are clothed with the sheep (> Schw^l.c. who translates lambs Ps 37:20 after Aq ᵑ6 ᵑ7 and Ps 65:14*, and understands Isa 30:23 of a definite plural). —

II. ‎כַּר‎ noun [masculine] he-lamb, battering-ram (Assyrian kirru, Zim in Schw^{ZAW x. (1890), 186}; perhaps lamb from dancing, skipping, galloping in field; (battering-) ram as in English, from butting; compare Arabic ram and buttress, Lane; also battering-ram compare Dozy^{ii. 440}); — singular only Isa 16:1 the lamb of the ruler (as tribute); elsewhere plural ‎כָּרִים‎ Amos 6:4; 1Sam 15:9; 2Kgs 3:4; Jer 51:40 (in simile), Ezek 27:21; Ezek 39:18 ‎׳‎‎חֵלֶב כ‎ Deut 32:14 the fat of lambs; ‎׳‎‎דַּם כ‎ ‎וְעַתּוּדִים‎ Isa 34:6 the blood of lambs and goats; ‎כָּרִים‎ = battering-rams Ezek 4:2; Ezek 21:27* (twice in verse) (in v^a Co reads ‎שָׂרִים‎, compare AV; ᵑ0 RV as above). — See also ‎בֵּית כָּ֑ר‎ p. I I I above

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