דְּכַר
ram
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1798 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 3 verses
- Ezra 6:9 וְ/דִכְרִ֣ין conj + n c mp That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
- Ezra 6:17 דִּכְרִ֣ין n c mp They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
- Ezra 7:17 דִּכְרִין֙ n c mp therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
דכר (dᵉkar) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “ram.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Ezra dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. It first appears in Ezra 6:9. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1798 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rams 3×
- American Standard Version: Rams 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rams 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rams 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1798 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1798 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1798 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1798 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- ram
Word origin
Derived from זכר (zâkâr) (H2145) — male.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דְּכַר I
- = h. זָכַר [to mark,] to remember. Targ. Lam. III, 19 sq. Targ. Ps. LXXXVIII, 6; a. fr.—Sabb. 12ᵇ רחמנא יִדְכְּרִינָךְ וכ׳ the Lord remember thee for health.—Part. דְּכָר, דָּכְרָא, pass. דְּכִיר, דְּכִירָא remembering, reminded. Targ. Ps. CXXXVII, 1 הוינא דָכְרִין (ed. Lag. דְּכִירִין). Targ. Gen. VIII, 1; a. fr.; v. דְּכִיר.—2) to mention, remind. Targ. Gen. XL, 14 (with על).—[Targ. Y. I Num. XXIV, 1, v. Af.].—Sabb. 57ᵃ, a. fr. מאן ד׳ שמיה who mentioned his (its) name, i.e. what has this to do here?
- to remind, call to remembrance. Targ. Gen. XLI, 9. Targ. Y. II, Num. XXIV, 1 (Y. I מִד׳, corr. acc.); a. e.—Ber. 31ᵃ, a. e. אַדְכַּרְתָּן מילתא וכ׳ thou recallest to my mind what R. … said; Succ. 53ᵃ bot.—Snh. 82ᵃ אַדְכְּרֵיה רב לגמריה (by reciting the verse) he recalled to Rabs’ mind a tradition, v. גְּמָרָא. Nidd. 24ᵇ דכי מַדְכְּרוּ ליה מִדְּכַר that when they mention it (the reason), one should be reminded (that he has heard the law before). Keth. 20ᵃ מַדְכַּר חד לחבריה one (witness) may recall (the circumstances) to the other’s mind. Ber. 18ᵇ לאַדְּכּוּרֵיה to recall it.
- 1. to be remembered. Targ. Jer. XI, 19 יִדְּכַר (not יִדְכַּר).
- 2. to be reminded, recollect. Targ. Ps. XXV, 6; a. e.—Keth. 20ᵇ. Nidd. 24ᵇ, v. supra; a. e.
דְּכַר II
- = h. זָכָר [marked,]
- 1. male, man. Targ. Gen. I, 27; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 33 בר דְּ׳ male offspring, opp. ברתא נוקבא. Bets. 7ᵃ ביעי דדִכְ׳ eggs originating from fructification by a cock, opp. דספנא וכ׳ from self-friction. Pes. 56ᵃ כופרא די׳, v. כּוּפְרָא III.—Pl. דִּכְרִין, דִּכְרַיָּא, דִּכְרֵי, דִּי׳, דּוּ. Targ. Ex. XIII, 15; a. fr.—Keth. IV, 10 (52ᵇ) בנין דיכרין male issue, opp. בנן נוקבן. Gen. R. l. c. הוא מן ד׳ וכ׳ he is a descendant of Judah by the male side.
- 2. (sub. דענא) the male of the flock, ram. Targ. Num. XXVIII, 11; a. fr.—Pl. as above. Targ. Ex. XXIX, 1; a. fr.—Ḥull. 51ᵃ הנהו ד׳ וכ׳ wethers which thieves carried off (by throwing them over the fence)—Gen. R. s. 70, end, v. דִּכְרָנִי. [עינבי דיכרין, v. כְּרוּמָא a. כְּרַהּ.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H1798 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דִּכְרִ֣ין | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 6:17 | 1 |
| דִּכְרִין֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 7:17 | 1 |
| וְ/דִכְרִ֣ין | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 6:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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