קַרְקֹר
Karkor
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Karkor’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7174 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Judges 1 verse
About this entry
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קרקר — transliterated Qarqôr — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Karkor.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Judges (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Judges 8:10. 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 H7174 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Were in karkor 1×
- American Standard Version: Were in karkor 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Were in karkor 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were in karkor 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7174 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7174 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7174 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7174 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Karkor = "foundation"
- a place east of the Jordan in Gilead where Zebah and Zalmunna were again routed by Gideon
Word origin
קַרְקֹר n.pr.loc. E. of Jordan, Ju 8:10, site unknown
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קור (qûwr) (H6979) — to dig.
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.
קִרְקֵר I
- to storm a wall, batter, destroy. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵇ sq. בשביעי נכנסו … מְקַרְקְרִין בו וכ׳ on the seventh of Ab they entered it, on the eighth they worked to demolish it, on the ninth they set fire to it; Y. Meg. I, 70ᶜ top; Tosef. Taan. IV (III), 10 והיו מקרקרין שביעי וכ׳ they worked at its demolition on the seventh, the eighth &c. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joḥ. 1) שהיו מְקַרְקְרִים קירות וכ׳ they tore down the walls of their houses and made of them breastworks and placed them around their forts, v. שׁוֹעַ; Yalk. Is. 289.
קִרְקֵר II
- (cmp. כִּרְכֵּר) to dance, revel. Gen. R. s. 64 (v. גָּרַר II) שנכנסו … והיו מְקַרְקְרִין בו וכ׳ lawless people came to his house and revelled with him (Abimelech) the whole night; Yalk. ib. 111. Gen. R. s. 74 והיו מקרקרין וכ׳ (Var. מְקַרְטְעִים) and revelled with him (Laban) &c.; Yalk. ib. 130.
קִרְקֵר III
- (onomatop.) to cackle; to quack; to cry &c. Taan. 29ᵃ (ref. to Is. XXII, 5) הקב"ה מְקַרְקֵר עליהן כתרנגולת שמְקַרְקֶרֶת על בניה Ar. (Ms. M. 1 הקב"ה מקרקר אחריהם כתרנוגלין; Ms. M. 2 קִירְקר עליהם; omitted in ed., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the Lord moans for them like a hen that cackles for her young; Yalk. Is. 289. Ex. R. s. 9 התחיל … ומקרקר וכ׳ Pharaoh began to laugh at them and crow at them like a cock. e.g. Isaiah 22:5
קַרְקַר
- Targ. II Esth. I, 2 תרנגולין מְקַרְקְרִין the cocks (on Solomon’s throne) crowed.—Ḥull. 53ᵃ bot. איהו … ואינהו קמְקַרְקְרָן when he (the lion) roars, and they (the domestic animals) make a noise (mow, bleat &c.). Ib.ᵇ 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7174, 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
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Karkor). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under Zeba and Zalmunna, whom he took captive.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(foundation), the place in which Zebah and Zalmunna were again routed by Gideon, (Judges 8:10) must have been on the east of Jordan.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
they rested
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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