Ram
דְּכַרStrong’s H1798dekhar (de-khar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dekhar is the Aramaic word usually translated “rams”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:”
Meaning
- Ram
How it's translated
- rams 2
- and rams 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
- Ezra 7:17That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Aramaic dictionary
דְּכַר dekhar · ram
ram
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ram” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAM, noun
[See the Verb.]
- The male of the sheep or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup.
- In astronomy, Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the 21st of March, or a constellation of fixed stars in the figure of a ram It is considered the first of the twelve signs.
- An engine of war, used formerly for battering and demolishing the walls of cities; called a battering-ram. [See Battering-ram.]
All definitions and other forms of “ram”
RAM, verb transitive
[Latin ramus, a branch that is a shoot or thrust. Heb. See Cram.]
- To thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive down or together; as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram piles into the earth.
- To drive, as with a battering ram
- To stuff; to cram.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.