כַּרְכֹּם
karkôm · H3750 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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Saffron
A plant with tapering grass-like leaves growing from an underground bulb and a reddish or purple flower (Crocus sativus), used for perfume and medicine and associated with fragrance
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:14 Nard and saffron, spice reed and cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, Myrrh, and aloes, along with all the finest balsam oils.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- This word's sole occurrence (Song of Solomon 4:14) denotes saffron, a fragrant plant, so it belongs among plant terms.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3750. karkom כַּרְכֹּם noun [masculine] saffron (crocus sativus) (Late Hebrew id.; and…
כַּרְכֹּם noun [masculine] saffron (crocus sativus) (Late Hebrew id.; and verb denominative כִּרְכֵּם; Hithpa`el grow yellow, pale; Aramaic כּוּרְכְּמָא, Arabic = κρόκος, crocus; LagGes. Abh. 58, No. 147; so also JHMordtsab Denkm. 83 f.; otherwise DHMib., who compare Sabean כמכם, Arabic = Greek κάγκαμον); — Son 4:14; on meaning see especially LöwNo. 162.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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
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