בִּכְרָה
bikrâh · H1072 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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young she-camel, young female dromedary
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a young female camel or dromedary
ExamplesJeremiah 2:23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- קַלlight 1
- שָׂרַךְto run to and fro 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- גָּמָל gâmâl · H1581 · camel
- General term for camel; בִּכְרָה specifically denotes the swift riding dromedary (young or swift camel), a more specialized subset of the broader category
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- The word denotes a young female camel, as Jeremiah likens unfaithful Israel to 'a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways' in Jeremiah 2:23, fitting this domain's category for domesticated animals.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1072. bikrah בִּכְרָה noun feminine young camel, dromedary (Arabic young she-camel) Jer…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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