Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3746 - כָּרִי Kari (bodyguard of Jehoash)

Original Word:	כָּרִי
Transliteration:	Kari
Definition:	bodyguard of Jehoash
Part of Speech:	Adjective
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-ree')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

captains, Cherethites

Perhaps an abridged plural of kar in the sense of leader (of the flock); a life-guardsman -- captains, Cherethites (from the margin).

see HEBREW kar

Englishman's Concordance

1) a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners
Part of Speech: adjective
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: perhaps an abridged plural of H3733 in the sense of leader (of the flock)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כָּרִיadjective, of a people probably=Carian, only with article as substantive collective Carians, name given to foreign body-guard of king (compare RS^{OTJC 249, 2d ed.262}) לַכָּרִי וְלָרָצִים2 Kings 11:4 compare 2 Kings 11:19; הכרי2 Samuel 20:23 Kt (< Qr הַכְּרֵתִי which We Dr Bu prefer).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3746. כָּרִים (Kari) — 4 Occurrences

2 Samuel 20:23
HEB:[הַכְּרִי כ] (הַכְּרֵתִ֖י ק) וְעַל־
INT: of Jehoiada was over captains was over and the Pelethites

1 Kings 1:38
HEB:בֶן־ יְהוֹיָדָ֗ע וְהַכְּרֵתִי֙ וְהַפְּלֵתִ֔י וַיַּרְכִּ֙בוּ֙
INT: the son of Jehoiada captains and the Pelethites ride

2 Kings 11:4
HEB:(הַמֵּאֹ֗ות ק) לַכָּרִי֙ וְלָ֣רָצִ֔ים וַיָּבֵ֥א
NAS: of hundreds of the Carites and of the guard,
KJV: over hundreds, with the captains and the guard,
INT: the captains hundred of the Carites the guard and brought

2 Kings 11:19
HEB:הַ֠מֵּאוֹת וְאֶת־ הַכָּרִ֨י וְאֶת־ הָרָצִ֜ים
NAS: of hundreds and the Carites and the guards
KJV: over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard,
INT: the captains of hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all

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