Bible word study

Kar (Strong’s H3733): Meaning in the Bible

Kar (כַּר) is the Hebrew word numbered H3733 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also H1033.

• Original wordכַּר
• Transliterationkar
• Pronunciationkar
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3733
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3769 in the sense of plumpness;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kar appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kar (H3733) stands behind 16 English renderings in 15 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (5), Isaiah (3), Psalms (2).

How the King James Bible renders Kar, by count

• lambs9 of 16 (56 percent)
• pastures2 of 16 (12 percent)
• rams2 of 16 (12 percent)
• captains1 of 16 (6 percent)
• furniture1 of 16 (6 percent)
• lamb1 of 16 (6 percent)

Three places to read Kar

• Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
• Psalms 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
• Ezekiel 4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kar in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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