Strong's Lexicon

H1798

H1798 — דְּכַר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Aramaicdkarnoun mascOccurrences: 3TWOT: 2677a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1798
Word:דְּכַר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:(Aramaic) corresponding to H2145
Language:Aramaic
Occurrences:3
Transliteration:dkar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:dek-ar'
Meaning:1. (properly) a male, i.e. of sheep
KJV Renderings:ram.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB9449

[דְּכַר] noun masculine ram ( ᵑ7 דִּכְרָא, Syriac [untranscribed source text 5979] id., also (and primarily) male, see Biblical Hebrew זָכָר ); — plural דִּכְּ רִין for sacrifice Ezra 6:9; Ezra 6:17; Ezra 7:17.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

דכר (d’char)

Exodus 6:9

KJV: And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.anguish: Heb. shortness, or, straitness
EHCC: both young bullocks, and rams, and

Exodus 3:17

KJV: And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
EHCC: with this money bullocks, rams,
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