ik.kar denotes an agricultural worker, portrayed in Scripture in relation to fields, harvests, livestock, and farming teams.

The term consistently denotes people engaged in agricultural work: they are associated with soil, fields, harvests, flocks, and a farming team; the same occupation appears in settings of provision, drought, lament, restoration, and judgment.

1. Agricultural workers · dominant

   The masculine singular and plural forms identify people connected with agricultural labor. In 2 Chronicles 26:10 the APB renders them among those present where livestock, mountains, Carmel, and soil are mentioned; in Jeremiah 14:4 and Joel 1:11 they are ashamed or called to wail when rain and harvest fail. Isaiah 61:5 places them alongside vinedressers, while Amos 5:16 and Jeremiah 31:24 place them respectively in mourning and in the restored dwelling of Judah's cities.

   2 Chronicles 26:10Amos 5:16Isaiah 61:5Jeremiah 14:4Jeremiah 31:24Joel 1:11

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB consistently presents the term as “farmers” across the supplied verses, including a singular individual in Jeremiah 51:23. Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, this rendering is confirmed by the agricultural settings rather than treated as a precise lexical equation.