Kârîy — H3746

Definition

adjective

a life-guardsman

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

Usually translated as

captains, Cherethites

Origin

perhaps an abridged plural of H3733 in the sense of leader (of the flock)

• Kar (H3733)

Occurrences

Kârîy occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (2)

• 2 Kings 11:4 — And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains (לַכָּרִי֙) 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 11:19 — And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains (הַכָּרִ֨י), 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.