Saddle
כָּרStrong’s H3733kar
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kar is the Hebrew word usually translated “lambs”, “battering-rams” and “pastures”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Howdah, palanquin, basket saddlean enclosed riding space erected on a camel's saddle
- Pasture, meadow
- Ram, lamb, he-lamb
- Battering-ram
How it's translated
- lambs 5
- battering-rams 3
- pastures 2
- in saddlebag of 1
- the lambs 1
- a lamb 1
- pasture 1
- like lambs 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- 1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
- 2 Kings 3:4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
- Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- Isaiah 16:1Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּר kar · saddle
1) howdah, palanquin, basket saddle 1a) an enclosed riding space erected on a camel's saddle
כַּר kar · pasture
pasture, meadow
כַּר kar · ram
1) ram, lamb, he-lamb 2) battering-ram
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “saddle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SADDLE, noun
sad'l. [Latin sedeo, sedile.]
- A seat to be placed on a horse's back for the rider to sit on.
- Among seamen, a cleat or block of wood nailed on the lower yard-arms to retain the studding sail-booms in their place.
All definitions and other forms of “saddle”
SAD'DLE, verb intransitive
- To put a saddle on.“Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass” Genesis 22:3
- To load; to fix a burden on; as, to be saddled with the expense of bridges and highways.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.