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# קַרְקַר

Biblical Hebrew

**Karkor** — 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

Karkor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Nu 24:17 read קָדְקֹד q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will destroy (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.17/#tree)

אֶרְאֶ֙נּוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א עַתָּ֔ה אֲשׁוּרֶ֖נּוּ וְלֹ֣א קָר֑וֹב דָּרַ֨ךְ כּוֹכָ֜ב מִֽיַּעֲקֹ֗ב וְקָ֥ם שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמָחַץ֙ פַּאֲתֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב וְקַרְקַ֖ר כָּל־בְּנֵי־שֵֽׁת׃

*Word for word:* I see.him and not now I observe.him and not near it.will.march.forth a.star from Jacob and it.will.arise a.scepter from Israel and it.will.smash the.corners of.Moab and it.will.destroy all the.descendants of.Sheth

*JPS 1917:* I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5e8_5b0_5e7_5b7_5e8/): 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).