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Strong's #3603 - כִּכָּר
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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.
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.
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