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H3746

כרי

כרי
karaya

Adjective · Perhaps an abridged plural of כר (H3733) in the sense of leader (of the flock)

Perhaps an abridged plural of H3733 in the sense of leader (of the flock); a life-guardsman:—captains, Cherethites (from the margin).

Outline

  1. a group of foreign mercenary soldiers serving as a bodyguard for king David; also executioners

Usages

2 Samuel 20:23

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:

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2 Kings 11:4

And 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.

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2 Kings 11:19

And 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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