Bible dictionaries

Dekar

What Bible dictionaries say about “Dekar”, one article after the other.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

de'-kar (deqer, "lancer"): Father of one of Solomon's commissaries (1Ki 4:9 the King James Version). See BEN-DEKER.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(a lancer). The son of Dekar, i.e. Ben Dekar, was Solomon’s commissariat officer in the western part of the hill-country of Judah and Benjamin, Shaalbim and Bethshemesh. (1 Kings 4:9) (B.C. before 1014.)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith