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כָּרִי Carites

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PeopleGematria 230×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

The Carites, a company of guardsmen named in the account of how Yehoyada brought the boy king Yoash out of hiding and set him on the throne.

2 Kings 11:19מלכים ב יא:יט

וַיִּקַּח אֶת־שָׂרֵי הַמֵּאוֹת וְאֶת־הַכָּרִי וְאֶת־הָרָצִים וְאֵת כָּל־עַם הָאָרֶץ וַיֹּרִידוּ אֶת־הַמֶּלֶךְ מִבֵּית יְהוָה וַיָּבוֹאוּ דֶּֽרֶך־שַׁעַר הָרָצִים בֵּית הַמֶּלֶךְ וַיֵּשֶׁב עַל־כִּסֵּא הַמְּלָכִֽים

And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, 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 unto the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

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What is the gematria of Carites?

Carites — כרי in Hebrew — has a gematria of 230 in the standard method.

How many times is Carites named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at 2 Kings 11:19.

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