Strong’s H3746 · Hebrew
כָּרִי
kârîy · kaw-ree'
Origin perhaps an abridged plural of כַּר (H3733) in the sense of leader (of the flock);
Meaning a life-guardsman
In the King James Version captains, Cherethites (from the margin).
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 11:4And 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.
- 2 Kings 11:19And 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.