כִּכָּר
round
‘round’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Every verse where H3603 appears in the Book of Ezra — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ככר — transliterated kikkâr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “round.” The King James Version usually renders it “talents,” while modern versions prefer “kikkars of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 55 verses in 16 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 13:10, it then recurs through the corpus. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3603 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 55
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 55 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #582
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 582 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 55 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 9 verses 16%
- Genesis 7 verses 13%
- Exodus 7 verses 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 55 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 20 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 15 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Talents 36×, Plain 8×, Talent 8×
- American Standard Version†: Talents 36×, Plain 8×, Talent 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Talents 35×, Plain 10×, Talent 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Kikkars of 12×, Kikkars 11×, Talents of 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3603 across 68† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3603 across 68† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3603 across 68† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3603 across 72† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. the round (or oval) especially of the Jordan valley, כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן Gn 13:10, 11; 1 K 7:46 = 2 Ch 4:17; abs. הַכִּכָּר Gn 19:17, 25; Dt 34:3; 2 S 18:23; אֶרֶץ הַכּ׳ Gn 19:28; עָרֵי הַכּ׳ 13:12; 19:29, v. GASmG. 505 BuhlG. 112; district of Jerus., הַכּ׳ Ne 3:22, 12:28. e.g. Genesis 13:10
- 2. loaf of bread (from round shape), כִּכַּר לָ֑חֶם 1 S 2:36; Pr 6:26, cf. Ex 29:23; Je 37:21 1 Ch 16:3; כִּכְּרוֹת לֶחֶם 1 S 10:3; Ju 8:5. e.g. 1 Samuel 2:36
- 3.
- a. a weight (also from shape), כִּכַּר עֹפֶרֶת Zc 5:7 a weight of lead, serving as cover of an ephah. e.g. Zechariah 5:7
- b. a particular unit of weight, talent, usually of gold or silver:—כ׳ זָהָב 2 S 12:30; 1 K 9:14 + 18 times; כ׳ כֶּסֶף 1 K 20:39; 2 K 5:5 + 21 times; but also of iron, בַּרְוֶל 1 Ch 29:7, and bronze נְחשֶׁת Ex 38:29 1 Ch 29:7.—The weight of the talent was 58.944 kilogr. (= 129.97 lbs.) according to older (Bab.) standard, later 49:11 kg. (= 108.29 lbs.) and less; v. BenzArch. 187 ff. 194 NowArch. i. 208 f..—See also שֶׁקֶל. e.g. 2 Samuel 12:30
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Gn 13:10; Ex 29:23; a round: hence 1. a round district. 2. a round loaf. 3. a round weight, talent (NH id.; loaf, weight, talent; Aramaic כַּכְּרָא, ܟܰܟܪܳܐ, talent; Tel Am. gaggaru kaspu Wkl No. 35, Rev. 14 Christ.-Pal.-Aramaic ܟܪܟܪܝܬܐ, of honey-comb SchwallyIdiot. 46; on format. v. Ba NB 204);—abs. כ׳ Gn 13:12 +; cstr. כִּכַּר 1 S 2:36 +; du. כִּכְּרַיִם כֶּסֶף 1 K 16:24; 2 K 5:23, כִּכָּרָ֑יִם v 23; pl. כִּכָּרִים 1 Ch 22:14(×2) + 7 times Chr; cstr. כִּכְּרֵי 2 K 5:5 + 2 times Chr; כִּכְּרוֹת (loaves) Ju 8:5 1 S 10:3;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כרר (kârar) (H3769) — to dance.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
ככר
- , Targ. Prov. XVII, 25 מככיר Ms., v. כְּבַד Af.
כִּכָּר
- , v. כִּרְכֵּר) [circle,]
- 1. district. Gen. R. s. 41 כל ערי הכ׳ all the towns of the (Jordan) district.
- 2. loaf. Erub. VIII, 2; Kel. XVII, 11 מכ׳ בפונדיון וכ׳ bread for two meals consists of a loaf bought for a dupondium when four S’ah of wheat are worth one Sela; ib. משתי ידות לכ׳ וכ׳ of two thirds of a loaf three of which represent a Kab of grain. Sifré Deut. 40 כ׳ ומקל ירדו וכ׳ bread and stick (reward and punishment) came down from heaven tied together; a. v. fr.—Pl. כִּכָּרִים, כִּכָּרוֹת. Toh. V, 6 שני כ׳. Ber. 39ᵇ שתי כ׳; a. fr.
- 3. Kikkar, a weight of silver or gold, talent (= 3000 Shekel, v. Zuckerm. Talm. Münz. p. 7). Ab. Zar. 44ᵃ שוה כִּכַּר זהב worth a gold talent; a. fr.—Pl. כִּכָּרִים, constr. כִּכְּרֵי. Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵇ top.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 35 distinct written forms H3603 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3603, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 49 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 55 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 13:10
- Exodus 25:39
- Deuteronomy 34:3
- Judges 8:5
- 1 Samuel 2:36
- 2 Samuel 12:30
- 1 Kings 7:46
- 2 Kings 5:5
- 1 Chronicles 16:3
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
- Ezra 8:26
- Esther 3:9
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
