Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3746
כָּרִי
ka.ri · “Carite”
Used 3 times across 2 books
Definition
A group, first mentioned at 2Sa.8.18; also called Carite at 2Ki.11.4,19;
Group of ke.re.ti (כְּרֵתִי "Cherethite" H3774H)
a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners
Group of ke.re.ti (כְּרֵתִי "Cherethite" H3774H)
a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners
Where it appears
2 Samuel1
2 Kings2
In the text
2 Samuel 20:23Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:2 Kings 11:4And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord, and shewed them the king’s son.2 Kings 11:19And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
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