כַּד
kad (H3537)
jar
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# The Hebrew Word *Kad* (כַּד): A Vessel for Practical Life The word *kad* designates a jar—a container vessel used in ancient Hebrew contexts. With eighteen occurrences in the biblical text, this term represents a common object in daily life rather than a specialized or ceremonial item. The straightforward definition reflects its mundane purpose: to hold and transport liquids or dry goods. As a noun appearing with reasonable frequency across the biblical corpus, *kad* was evidently familiar enough to Hebrew speakers that it required no elaborate explanation when mentioned in narratives or instruction. The practical nature of this word reveals something about biblical Hebrew vocabulary: everyday objects received explicit naming and recognition in the scriptural record. The *kad* appears to have been a standard household and utilitarian container, likely made of clay given the archaeological context of ancient Near Eastern domestic life. Its presence across eighteen biblical passages suggests it was encountered frequently enough in common experience that writers could reference it without special definition, much as modern English speakers use terms like "bucket" or "pitcher" without explanation.
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Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’ ”
The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”
before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,