H3746 כָּרִי

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 2 KJV occurrences

כָּרִי

kârîy · kaw-ree'

Definition

a life-guardsman

KJV Renderings

captains, Cherethites (from the margin).

Derivation / Etymology

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

KJV Verses (2)

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.
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.