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# בִּכְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1072

**young camel** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

young camel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1072/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּכְרָה: n.f. young camel, dromedary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1072/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. young camel, dromedary (Arabic بَكْرَهٌ young she-camel) Je 2:23; pl. cstr. בִּכְרֵי Is 60:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a young camel (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.23/#tree)

אֵ֣יךְ תֹּאמְרִ֞י לֹ֣א נִטְמֵ֗אתִי אַחֲרֵ֤י הַבְּעָלִים֙ לֹ֣א הָלַ֔כְתִּי רְאִ֤י דַרְכֵּךְ֙ בַּגַּ֔יְא דְּעִ֖י מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑ית בִּכְרָ֥ה קַלָּ֖ה מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת דְּרָכֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* how? will.you.say not I.have.made.myself.unclean after the Baals not I.have.walked consider conduct your in the valley recognize what? have.you.done a.young.camel swift \[which\].entwines paths its

*JPS 1917:* How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'? See thy way in the Valley, know what thou hast done; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1072/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).