Cherethite
כְּרֵתִיStrong’s H3774kereti (ke-re-ti)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kereti is the Hebrew word usually translated “kerethite” and “kerethites”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
Meaning
- A group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners
- Either Cretans or proto-Philistines (in general)
- A group, first mentioned at 2Sa.8.18; also called Carite at 2Ki.11.4,19
How it's translated
- the kerethite 4
- and the kerethite 4
- kerethites 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 4
- 1 Kings 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 8:18And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.
- 2 Samuel 15:18And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
- 2 Samuel 20:7And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 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:
- 1 Kings 1:38So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:44And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
Hebrew dictionary
כְּרֵתִי kereti · Cherethite
Someone descended from Chereth(?), first mentioned at 1Sa.30.14 § Cherethites = "executioners" 1) a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners 2) either Cretans or proto-Philistines (in general)
כָּרִי kari · Carite
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.