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Strong's #3603 - כִּכָּר
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- round
- a round district (environs of the Jordan valley)
- a round loaf (of bread)
- a round weight, talent (of gold, silver, bronze, iron)
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2258) rkk (ככר KKR) AC: ? CO: Round AB: ?: Something that is round. [from: rk- as round like a bowl]
Nf ) rkk (ככר KKR) - Round: A coin as a round piece of gold or silver. [Aramaic only] KJV (1): talent - Strongs: H3604 (כִּכַּר)
ef) rkik (כיכר KYKR) - Round: A coin as a round piece of gold or silver. A round loaf of bread. The plain as a round piece of land. KJV (68): talent, plain, loaf, piece, country, morsel - Strongs: H3603 (כִּכָּר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 a round district.
2 a round loaf.
3 a round weight, talent (Late Hebrew id.; loaf, weight, talent; Aramaic כַּכְּרָא, talent; Tel Amarna gaggaru kaspu Wkl No. 35, Revelation 14 Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , of honey- comb Schw Idioticon 46; on formative see Ba NB 204); — absolute ׳כ Genesis 13:12 +; construct כִּכַּר 1 Samuel 2:36 +; dual כִּכְּרַיִם כֶּסֶף 1 Kings 16:24; 2 Kings 5:23, כִּכָּרָ֑יִם 2 Kings 5:23; plural כִּכָּרִים 1 Chronicles 22:14 (twice in verse) + 7t. chr; construct כִּכְּרֵי 2 Kings 5:5 2t. Chronicles; כִּכְּרוֺת ( loaves) Judges 8:5; 1 Samuel 10:3; —
1 the round (or oval) especially of the Jordan valley, כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן Genesis 13:10,11; 1 Kings 7:46 2 Chronicles 4:17; absolute הַכִּכָּר Genesis 19:17,25; Deuteronomy 34:3; 2 Samuel 18:23; ׳אֶרֶץ הַכּ Genesis 19:28; ׳עָרֵי הַכּ Genesis 13:12; Genesis 19:29, see GASm G 505 Buhl G. 112; district of Jerusalem, ׳הַכּ Nehemiah 3:22; Nehemiah 12:28.
2 loaf of bread (from round shape), כִּכַּר לָ֑חֶם 1 Samuel 2:36; Proverbs 6:36, compare Exodus 29:23; Jeremiah 37:21; 1 Chronicles 16:3; כִּכְּרוֺת לֶחֶם 1 Samuel 10:3; Judges 8:5. 3
a. a weight (also from shape), כִּכַּר עֹפֶרֶת Zechariah 5:7 a weight of lead, serving as cover of an ephah.
b. a particularunit of weight, talent, usually of gold or silver: — זָהָבּ׳כ 2 Samuel 12:30; 2 Kings 9:14 18t.; כֶּסֶף׳כ 1 Kings 20:39; 2 Kings 5:5 21t.; but also of iron, בַּרְזֶל 1 Chronicles 29:7, and bronze נְחשֶׁת Exodus 38:29; 1 Chronicles 29:7. — The weight of the talent was 58.944kilograms (= 129.97 lbs.) according to older (Babylonian) standard, later 49.11king (= 108.29 lbs.) and less; see Benz Archaeology 187 ff.194Now Archaeology i. 208f. — See also שֶׁקֶל.
כרשׂ √ of following (Arabic be wrinkled).
כרר (√ of following; compare Biblical Hebrew כרר, כִּכָּר
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כִּכָּר f. (Genesis 13:10; Exodus 29:23; 2 Kings 5:5), cstr. כִּכַּר pr. a circle, globe, for כִּרְכָּר from the root כָּרַר Pi. כִּרְכֵּר (To this there agree in the western languages, circus, circulus, and the letter r being softened, κύκλος; comp. כָּרַךְ.) Specially
(1) a circumjacent tract of country, der Umkreis, Nehemiah 12:28 כִּכַּר חַיַּרְדֵּן the tract of Jordan, i.e. the region through which the Jordan flows down into the Red Sea; κατʼ ἐξοχήν הַכִּכָּר Genesis 13:12, 19:17, sq.; 2 Samuel 18:23 Gr. ἡ περίχωρος τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, Matthew 3:5 now called الفور el Ghôr.
(2) כִּכַּר לֶחֶם a cake, a round loaf, Exodus 29:23; 1 Samuel 2:36; Proverbs 6:26. Pl. m. כִּכְּרוֹת לֶחֶם Judges 8:5; 1 Samuel 10:3.
(3) a talent (Syr. ܟܰܟܪܳܐ), equal, as nearly as can be computed from Exodus 38:25, 26 Exodus 38:26, to three thousand shekels of the sanctuary, Zechariah 5:7, כִּכַּר זָהָב a talent of gold; 1 Kings 9:14, 10:10, 14 1 Kings 10:14. Dual כִּכָּרַיִם two talents, 2 Kings 5:23 כִּכְּרַיִם כֶּסֶף two talents of silver, ibid.; where כִּכְּרַיִם holds as it were a middle place between the absolute state כִּכָּרַיִם and the const. כִּכְּרֵי, which could not be used without taking away the numeral distinction. Pl. כִּכָּרִים const. כִּכְּרֵי f. talents, 2 Kings 5:5; 1 Chronicles 22:14, 29:7 Ezra 8:26.